Having problems with the package manager?

[linette97]

I Download the Mod I want... Then I click on Browse in the package manager... It installs the mod.. When I click to apply Mod... I get the screen to put my FTP user name & all that... I put it in and it comes back to the same screen... I then go to my files and Make the Mod file Zip all 777 and I get this error....

Warning: ftp_site() [function.ftp-site]: Could not change perms on /forum/Packages/PaypalDonations.zip: Operation not permitted in /home/admin/system.freepgs.com/ftp/includes/filesystem.inc.php on line 319
An error has occured: 
Unable to execute site command chmod 0777 /forum/Packages/PaypalDonations.zip. Note that the CHMOD command is only available on Unix FTP servers, not on Windows FTP servers.

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Technical information for developers:

The error occured in file /home/admin/system.freepgs.com/ftp/includes/filesystem.inc.php on line 322.

function ftp_chmod2 (/home/admin/system.freepgs.com/ftp/modules/chmod/chmod.inc.php on line 262)
function net2ftp_module_printBody (/home/admin/system.freepgs.com/ftp/main.inc.php on line 311)
function net2ftp (/home/admin/system.freepgs.com/ftp/index.php on line 53) 

It's driving me CRAZY!! I tried to install manually BUT I DONT UNDERSTAND HOW TO DO IT!! I'm running SMF 1.1 & my Host is Freepgs.com

Please Help trying to install the paypal Donation Mod and several others
Thanks all!

[freedomroad]

Hi;

I'm a complete Newbie to this. Just got hosting w Godaddy, and want to run a forum. Have installed SMF 1.1.1
QUESTIONS:

Am i going to have lots of probs w Godaddy w this?

How do we access the Package Manager?

Any suggestions or where to go on this forum for basic Newbie help w setting up SMF?

thanx in advance

[青山 素子]

This isn't really the appropriate topic for this, but since it is short, I'll answer here. Next time, please create a new topic or post in a better location.

1. GoDaddy is not the best host, but they are passable. Barely. Sometimes things work, sometimes they don't. Their free hosting causes the most problems (the javascript ads cause all kinds of problems). Pick Linux hosting over Windows, their Windows boxes are not set up well for PHP stuff. YMMV.

2. Admin -> Packages

3. Try the general support board.

[Dhekelian]

Does anything work in this 1.1.2 smf? Sorry to sound negative but I'm fed up defending smf when there is clearly a problem. I am running two forums on the same server, one is private and the other is public, I managed to install just two mods on the private one. If I use the package manager no matter what mod I DL it says there is an error in it and it is not compatible. If I do it manually via ftp I get at least two of the files with parse errors or that the test failed. I change the files to 777 both inside smf and manually. I'm on a Yahoo server btw. smf used to be so good to use it was great but now it's getting so it's not viable. I have now installed two test forums with the sole purpose of getting a mod to work. I cannot install a single mod, these forums have been installed from scratch and have their own database but I can't do it, I was planing to have some fun with these but nothing works the forum ticks over but thats it.

[青山 素子]

I manage four public boards and a few private boards (the private ones being for testing mod development and such). All work quite fine. Of the public boards, three are on 1.1.2 and one is 2.0.

One board is at 1&1 and I have about four mods on it. All installed just fine. Even the 1.1 to 1.1.1 and 1.1.1 to 1.1.2 update packages installed fine. No problems with it except for a minor theme problem from an older mod I removed. That was cleaned up just fine recently.

Another board is at PowWeb (they used to be good). It installs mods just fine too, and has been running SMF since the public 1.0 betas. The biggest issue I had was the upgrade from 1.0 to 1.1 and fixing my custom themes to work.

A third board is running on some random cPanel host (I don't know the hosting, I just admin the board) and it installs mods fine too. It was converted from phpBB to SMF 1.1 and has been upgraded to 1.1.2 recently with about four mods installed.

The fourth board is a 2.0 test board on my personal site. No mods on it yet, but the old 1.1 edition one on the same server worked just fine. Likewise for my private boards. All these ones run on my personal servers.

The mod system is great and all, but it is complex. It also requires some configuration that certain hosts don't allow or aren't set up for. A good many do work fine with it, but some just don't. There are many points something can go wrong at, and lumping all these together as meaning it is broken is just unfair. You could call most software broken going by that definition.

[Dhekelian]

i don't mean to sound rude m8 but if you think it from my point of view. I had setup an addition 2 forums for testing so I could see if there is any problem with my existing 2 forums only I can't do any testing. As a basic forum it works, just. But you can't enhance it, put mods on, it won't even send out confirmation E-mails. Have you heard of a problem with the Yahoo server? Cause either it is them or the smf software. Everytime you contact Yahoo they say it is fine thier end. I am a fan of the smf software but if it doesn't work then I will have to look at something else I suppose which I really do not want.

[青山 素子]

Without any more information, it would be difficult to determine the problem. If you want, open a new topic in the support area with information and get some assistance.

If you are really having trouble, I'd be happy to give you access to a test 1.1.2 install on one of my servers.

[Dhekelian]

would it be possible to PM you access details to the Admin on one of my public forums for you to have a look?

[青山 素子]

I'm rather busy, so I don't know how soon I could look (maybe the weekend?), but you can if you wish.

If you also want access to a test 1.1.2 install, I can do that fairly quickly.

[goodgameral]

Hi. My Package Manager won't let me CHMOD, when I do CHMOD, it changes it back because it isn't safe? I'm getting confused and I can't install the arcade because of this.

[RoarinRow]

Well i have had the dreaded cant install any packages syndrome for one week now, like others it comes up with ftp access information, when i type the right info in (and i know its right as i can access the site with other ftp clients) and i know the path is correct (im running ver 1.1.2) so i finally came to the conclusion it has to be something with my host not allowing smf to change the permission required to install the packages. I finally had a friend of mine install smf on his hosting service called Siteground (i used ipower) and for him it worked fine and he can isntall packages all day withough it even asking for the ftp information so i definately know now it is a hosting issue and them not giving the correct rights. I have contacted them but they seem to have no clue what i am talking about, so im moving over to the other hosting company as it works there :-)

I had the same problem with iPowerweb and the technician did something on their end and it seemed to do the trick   

[Inflame]

scrue me,

new forum, new host, and everything is messed up,
I can't install a normal package, but won't get an error message either.

I tried that thingy from Unknown at the beginning, not knowing it was freaky old,
could someone come up with a new way to sort this problem, never had it before with SMF... and working with it for 2 years now

[fabter]

I've got one short question about the ftp-functionality of the package manager:
When I enter my FTP-settings I always get following message:

Code Select Expand

550 /xyz.../html/forum: No such file or directory
Is this an safe mode issue? The safe_mode on my webserver is activated.

[jessicac]

No, it means what it says. There's no such directory. You should be using the relative path instead of the absolute path. Think of it like this... When you log in via FTP what folders do you see? For me, I see cgi-bin, error, stats, spamassasin, and web. Thus, to get to where my files are I have to go into the web directory. Your FTP path for package manager would be

/web

instead of

/var/www/mysite.com/web

For you, this is just a guess, but I would bet your path would be /html/forum

[jessicac]

I posted this elsewhere but since I'm not getting any responses I thought I'd try here as well. Sorry for crossposting.

Hi all.

I've run into a new problem that I've never had before with SMF. I'm trying to install TP on a fresh install of SMF via the package manager and it's not creating new directories. Packages is chmod'd to 777. I don't get any error I just get a URL and a blank white page:

http://www.myboard.org/index.php?action=packages;sa=install2;package=TP_0983.zip

If I manually add a temp folder in the Packages directory and chmod it to 777 the tp package will unzip all files that aren't in subdirectories.

This is a new problem for me. PHP is not running in safe mode. The only difference I can see is that files uploaded via the package manager are under the Apache user. Suggestions?

[fabter]

Thanks for your answer jessicac, but I took the /var/www/myid/html/forum version. And that's the version my hoster gave me. And SMF detected myid/html/forum. So I tried both multiple times, but no success. Always the same errormessage. And the files that are public and accessable from outside are stored in the html-folder. So it should be correct, shouldn't it?

[jessicac]

No, you missed the point. Do this, connect with your FTP client. That will be your base (as far as Package Manager/ftp is concerned) any subfolders you see below that will be what you put in SMF. When you connect via FTP you won't see /var/www/myid/html/forum because you don't have access to var or www. You probably end up in the myid folder but you don't see "myid". again, I would suggest trying /html/forum.

[fabter]

Hey thank you very much!
It was my fault, sorry! You were absolutely right! With /html/forum it works just fine.

[metallica48423]

jessicac:

Thank you very much for responding -- i actually didn't see this until just now

fabter:

Glad to hear you got it resolved

Enjoy

[Revenge]

I keep getting the message

"You cannot download or install new packages because the Packages directory or one of the files in it are not writable!"

But every file in Packages (including the folders Packages and backups) are chmodded to 777. Even the files that the mod alters I manually set to 777. Still no go.

Using SMF 1.1.2