Having problems with the package manager?

[SleePy]

It would help if you posted some of the errors you are getting.
Along with errors that popup in error log from it..

As well as some server information like php version, shared or dedicated, windows or linux (if linux what port of linux)

as well as your SMF Version..

[same33]

My version is 1.1 RC3. 

Here's the "pop up" ...


when i added needed info it goes to same screen again

server is IBM xSeries server with apache.. that's all the info i got at this point..
if more info is needed i can mail and ask from company i got the server..

gosh hopefully some1 can help

[青山 素子]

My guess is you aren't putting in the correct info for the local path. Double-check the path with an ftp program.

[same33]

done it like 100 times... i've checked everything sooo many times   

[青山 素子]

You should get an error message returned if there is a problem. What does it say?

[Morning]

I would suggest logging in using ftp yourself and checking what path you need to use to get to where you want to go. Assuming you are on a hosted box, your idea of the path may be different from the ftp servers. Web hosts will often use the call chroot() to change the position of the root directory. This prevents you for accessing others - and them from accessing your files.

[same33]

You should get an error message returned if there is a problem. What does it say?

nope no error message of any kind.. the same screen just pop up time after time.
if checked the root from the company i have the server .. checked ports , password, username..
i've chekced every possible aspect i could think of..

[NiceMan72]

I get this screen too when i try install mod to 1.1rc3...

I try install Gallery to SMF 1.1 RC3 but i take this screen too... i try many thing but not get it work :-(

[Ricky.]

I am new to SMF but today my whole day was into messing up with SMF.. particularly "Package Manager"

The main reason for me to go for SMF was its ease of installing mods..ie packages but seems that this the only thing which is not working,I can go for manual install but I dont' want that.

What I am facing that I can only install one package on fresh "SMF 1.1RC3" installation and after that it starts showgin following error..

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You cannot download or install new packages because the Packages directory or one of the files in it are not writable!
But I alraedy installed one package ie.. 1st and last.

I tried checkign up permssion and  all required files/directory were in 777 mode.
Then I reinstalled the board.. and again was able to install one MOD and after that.. it showed same error.

Kindly give me the clue ie. solution so that I can move further.

[Bigguy]

Try changing permissions on the packages folder to 777 and placing a temp directory inside of it also chmodded to 777

[Ricky.]

Interesting,
Adding a Temp directory inside packages directory with 777 permission solved the problem.
Thanks buddy.. Though I installed Tinyportal but seems that I need to search for changes in it.. lolz.. thats another issue

[Bigguy]

Glad it worked for you.

[Ricky.]

I think its not solved completely,
When I installed Mods, they got installed and showed installed in Package manager but I think its not working ie.. files are not getting uploaded .. I installed Advance Visual confirmation ..
It shows following list in files
   1.  ttf_fonts/acidic.ttf (49516 bytes)
   2. ttf_fonts/borduu.ttf (9540 bytes)
   3. ttf_fonts/cbgb.ttf (10180 bytes)
   4. ttf_fonts/corporeaa.ttf (8020 bytes)
   5. ttf_fonts/dymo.ttf (21332 bytes)
   6. ttf_fonts/fanzine.ttf (13812 bytes)
   7. ttf_fonts/jaii.ttf (10808 bytes)
   8. ttf_fonts/kulminoituva.ttf (13912 bytes)
   9. readme.txt (931 bytes)
  10. install.xml (46345 bytes)
  11. installverification.php (2235 bytes)
  12. package-info.xml (1091 bytes)
  13. Verification.php (81750 bytes)


It means its shld create directory named : ttf_fonts but there is no such directory created.. neither I am getting any error.

Let me know what next ?

[IchBin™]

All of this is boiling down to host issues Ricky. They have security messures in place that are not allowing SMF to create/move/modify files properly. As long as your on this host your more than likely to continue to have these problems. If your mod seemed to install fine, but the files aren't there, go ahead and upload them via FTP into the places that they are supposed to be and see if it works.

[Rop]

I've read through this entire thread, in fact searched and read every post on this forum related to this error message, so far with no luck.

This is a fresh install of SMF 1.1-RC3 on a W2K machine, running Apache v2, PHP5 (safe_mode = Off), and MySQL 5.0.27. All on the same machine. The entire SMF directory and everything underneath has full access control for everyone, with 'inherit' enabled so the temp dir that Package Manager creates plus its files have full controll as well.

I've tried installing "SMF 1.0.9 and 1.1 RC3-1 Security Patch" through Package Manager and though it says it completed successfully the version number at the bottom of the forum pages still says 'SMF 1.1-RC3'. In short, it looks like this patch didn't take.

Then tried installing "Advanced Visual Verification". When applying the mod it shows "2.     Execute Modification     -     Modification parse error". Though the "install now" option is enabled after that, it is clear that nothing gets installed when hitting it.

From other messages I understand this is supposed to be an access rights issue outside of SMF. However, all files and dirs related to SMF are already wide open for the NT user context that the Apache Web server runs under. The database user account has SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, INDEX and ALTER access to the forum schemata.

Any ideas on where to look or what to try? A better description on what this error message actually means would be helpful too. I've exhausted all ideas on this end...

Thank you!

-Rob-

[Ricky.]

Rop:
I am having something similar to yours ie the problem but only difference is that you are saying its Parse error, I don't have that one.

IceBin, I am running it on a dedicated box, I have full control so let me know what I need to change ?
Any clue ?

[IchBin™]

Well, it all depends on what your running. I'm not up to speed on what things can cause all of these issues. I know that phpsuexec puts a lot of rules on what PHP/Apache do as far as permissions. Do you know what you're running on that box?

[Ricky.]

Its CentOS
There is not phpsuexec !

[Ricky.]

Anyways!
If anyone having same problem then the solution is to modify php.ini and set "upload_tmp_dir" to something working.

Here in my case it was not set properly but now  after changing it .. its fine !

[biffking]

I am having problems with the package manager aswell. It keeps telling me "Could not upload package, please check directory permissions!" every time I click on packages in admin. It was working fine earlier, and now all the sudden I cant get to it. I know the permissions are set right so I dont know what the problem could be.