Cannot install via Packages, says 'not writable' but set 777

[desertcities]

Can anyone shed some light my way as to why SMF 1.1 RC2 is not accepting any mods via the Package Manager?  It's happening to me on 2 different hosts (Pair.com & Lypha.com).

The initial install went fine via the SMF FTP server, then it choked on the security upgrade and gave me same error below, but after 3 days the Package Manager worked and installed fine.  I thought I got lucky and tried to install a mod, but no luck.  Same error below.

Does anyone know what is happening?  Someone suggested if I had access to my /tmp folder and I don't see that, not even in my root.  Both web hosts are Unix based.

Thank you!

This is the error I'm constantly getting:

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

But everything is writable, all files triple-checked and CHMODed correctly.

[sawz]

just a thought, but maybe your giving too much permission?

[desertcities]

I'm only giving the permissions as explained in the SMF docs.  Nothing more.

I have other SMF boards that work fine, but for some reason on the 2 webhosts I mentioned, the Package Manager is not working and giving the error I shared.

Bummer.

Thanks.

Mark

[mark fresh]

Hi

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

but I have chmod'd 777 -R the Packages directory

any ideas?

cheers

Mark

[青山 素子]

You also need to adjust permissions for the files in it, namely installed.list and server.list (1.0.x only).

[mark fresh]

I managed to get it to work:

I work on a virtual server, and I changed the Package manager to use the virtual server root user, not the website root user

hope this helps

Mark

[MOLTOX2]

I managed to get it to work:

I work on a virtual server, and I changed the Package manager to use the virtual server root user, not the website root user

hope this helps

Mark

DO you mind explaining a bit how exactly can I accomplish that? I had this problem as well but my host (running Linux) took care of the problem. To this date I still don't know what he did.

[mark fresh]

OK, I have a virtual server that I have admin rights to. The Virtual Server company* has the root rights to the server but for all intents and purposes my admin is my root. I set up a virtual host and point a domain at it's folder, the folder is owned by 'user x' who can FTP to it and all the basics.

For some reason, I had to give the package manger the admin details for it to work, I guess 'user x' didn't have the right permissions. Anyway it worked.

I hope that helps

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