Having problems with the package manager?

[SusanTN]

Many Thanks to bl968

You are very welcome! It was annoying....

[examino]

I can't upload any packages or themes either. Imagine if i solve this and then not being able to apply them! I' m really gonna kill my host! 

[falleninlove]

i seem to having problems with installing new mods ..
This error message seems to pop up all the time

An Error Has Occurred!
The package you tried to upload either is not a valid package or has become corrupted. 

checked the package and it doesn't seem 2 be corrupted

or if i try to install existing package

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

[青山 素子]

Not completely sure on the first error, but for the second, make a folder called "temp" inside the Packages folder, and chmod to 777.

[sicaeddoo]

- My server is SAFEMODE ON: (webhost=surftown)
- I have innstalled the fix_ownership.pho
- I have created a folder "temp"  and chmod 777

I can now innstall mods, I get succsessfull message. But the problem now is that the mods dosnt show. When i press " Innstalled packages" , I get no mods installed.

Any one? 

[sverebom]

<< using SMF 1.1RC3
<< used repair_settings.php
<< all paths were correct (checked them several times)
<< used package manager

But still, every time, the same error: no such file or directory.
I've tried to user the ownership-fix and again "no such file or directory".

I've no more idea, what can be wrong or what I can do.
I'm tired, I'm loosing my patience, I'll give it one last chance tommorrow but then I'll change the software!

Thanks for your efforts but ...... aaaaaaarrrrgggghhhhh

[JayBachatero]

What mod are you trying to install?

[statichrist]

I just saw this post a moment ago after I made a new topic. Thought I should come here, though. Sorry.

Anyway, every time I click "Package Manager" I get the message "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage"

I've tried logging in and out, and some other things. Nothing works (so far).

Any ideas as to what I should do? It was working earlier, and then while uploading Bible BCC it got ALL screwed up.

EDIT: I just found a thread in this "room/board/forum" (A & F) entitled "Package Manager doesnt show up at all." and read that uploading "the whole Sources directory again" fixes this problem. I'm wondering what this refers to.

Note: It displays nothing in FireFox but gives "The page cannot be displayed" in Internet Explorer 6.

[statichrist]

I have been playing around a bit, and found something interesting.

I CAN get to everything that has to do with packages except the "Browse Packages" page. A friend said this was a server problem. Is this true? Either way, is there anything I can do to fix it?

EDIT: Also, I deleted the Package Server because I wanted to see if that was the problem. Is there a way that I can make it come back? Can you give me the info needed to add this server back?

[JayBachatero]

Server address is http://mods.simplemachines.org

[brianjw]

In the admin panel of smf. i go to the options i set everything up like member activation and email settings. When I tested to try it out and clicked register it says like you dont have access to view this page...   

I really want to be able to use this feature!

Ok. ok. I know there is the permission options but what do i set that which user can view that way anyone can start registering.
PLEASE SOMEONE REPLY SOON!
or email me at [email protected] but post it here first

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[Oldiesmann]

In the admin panel of smf. i go to the options i set everything up like member activation and email settings. When I tested to try it out and clicked register it says like you dont have access to view this page...   

I really want to be able to use this feature!

Ok. ok. I know there is the permission options but what do i set that which user can view that way anyone can start registering.
PLEASE SOMEONE REPLY SOON!
or email me at [email protected] but post it here first

HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP

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http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=116987.msg747724#msg747724

For future reference, please do not put a ton of emoticons and scrolling "HELP" text in your post. It's really annoying and is not going to make us answer your post any sooner.

[djole501]

I have installed the CountryFlag package and now I can't acces the Package manager any more. The server is giving me an internal error or misconfiguration. What is the problem? I use version 1.0.8.

[JayBachatero]

FTP to your site and go to forumdir/Packages and delete the CountryFlag archive and see if that works.  That mod shouldn't cause an internal server error.  Also check the permissions for the dir.  Try changing them to 755.

[djole501]

Thanks that worked but the dir was already set to 755.

[JayBachatero]

Umm the mod shouldn't have caused the error but at least it's working now.

[mrjuntao]

OK, i am really stuck with the package manager. Firstly I thought it was some error with the current forum, so i set up another one to test it out. Now everytime I go to install a mod, firstly the read me file never displays, then when it says that the tests are successful i go to install it, so I think all well and good, but no lol, nothing gets changed it does not alter anything  the when i come to unistall it, it says something went wrong with the install. It looks to me that its looking for smf in the wrong location but i am unsure, i really need help in resolving this as i have trawled through every other thread and none of their solutions worked.

This is just the test forum i am experimenting with, so its just a plain install of RC3, nothing changed to it at all.

[JayBachatero]

Those errors about a mod "installing" and not actually being installed are due to permission errors.  Check the file permissions.

[mrjuntao]

Hmm it took a couple of tries at resetting the permissions but it installed eventually, although only partly at that, i have managed to get it up and runing now though 

[udeze]

Hi,

I have just tried to install my first MOD, "SMFShop 2.2" to my forum, while trying to upload the zip file from my PC, I got this message:

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Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, [email protected] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

When I checked my error log I got this information:

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2: file(/home/fnigeria/public_html/Packages/installed.list): failed to open stream: No such file or directory
File: /home/fnigeria/public_html/Sources/Subs-Package.php
Line: 508

my forum directory is public_html b/c as it is purely a forumsite, I have changed it to 777, 755 and back to 750 but it doesn't work, the file subs-package.php is also available with CHMOD 644, what would be the cause of this,

my last attempt was to upload all the files to the "packages" directory, run installScript.php, and I got this error

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Database Error: Incorrect table name ''
File: /home/fnigeria/public_html/installScript.php
Line: 41

I am completely new to SMF, I just installed for the first time yesterday and I must confess that so far it is better than my former phpbb, I need help as I will really like to use this mod