I'm trying to put TP into a forum of mine. It is running 1.1.3 and there are no mods installed unless you count official security patches.
I uploaded the package through the package manager and installed it. I clicked through and it said the install went fine. However, I could see nothing. There was no evidence that TP had been installed at all except for its name in the package manager. No spot for it in the admin panel, nothing on the home page, no uploaded files or created directories (which is odd because I gave it working FTP information that it asked for). I even tried installing a TP theme to see if it would magically appear, but it didn't.
Curious, I tried uninstalling the package, but instead I get the error "The package you are trying to download or install is either corrupt or not compatible with this version of SMF." so I can't uninstall it...
Seeing as nothing had actually been changed to my knowledge I tried redownloading and reinstalling it without "uninstalling" it. And I noticed something...
On the Install Actions, this is all it does:
Quote1. Extract Tree ./Themes
2. Extract Tree ./Sources
3. Extract Tree ./tp-downloads
4. Extract Tree ./tp-images
5. Extract Tree ./FCKeditor
6. Extract Tree ./wysiwyg
7. Execute Code tp_install.php
Isn't it supposed to modify some SMF files? It certainly doesn't look like it does, and I seem to remember that it did from when I installed TP on another site a while back. Also, note that it had to run no tests for modification, which is suspiciously weird. (Lastly, shouldn't it give me some evidence that it executed tp_install.php?)
I'm curious as to what's gone wrong. Any ideas? I'm trying to avoid having to go manual because the results of finding and replacing and stuff end up never working for me. =/
EDIT: NEVER MIND, FALSE ALARM! My friend whose hosting I am on went over his disk quota. XD
I'm having a very similar problem. I installed TP yesterday, and nothing happened. Nothing relating to TP shows up in my Admin, and there is no change to my board. I'm now trying to uninstall and start over, but I get:
QuoteYou cannot download or install new packages because the Packages directory or one of the files in it are not writable!
I've chmodded my entire Packages folder to 777, but it denies my request for the tp zip file, saying it can't change permission. I'm struggling. Someone please help!
Go to: Admin>Package Mang.>>Packages>>Options>>--check the box: [Make all files writable]>>Click: Proceed --
Doing this makes all files / folders write/able [777] within your forum..
Still the same. I did what you said, and hit 'Change File Permissions,' but it just sat there and laughed at me. When the page refreshed, it the 'Only the standart files are writable' option was still selected. I repeated this several times, to no avail. I tried uninstalling again, just for kicks, but it still tells me something's not writeable.
Yes, it will do that but should have actually made the change. It will always show the 'Only the standard files are writable' option. Try it and see if it worked. Also make sure that you have the latest version of tp.
Try going into cPanel or whatever you use to access your server and change it in there. If you cannot change the permissions then you probably have permission issues with your hosting and need to contact them for assistance.
Thanks for trying to help. I did try it and it didn't work.
QuoteI tried uninstalling again, just for kicks, but it still tells me something's not writeable.
I'm using SMF 1.1.4, and I just downloaded TP from the site, so surely it's the latest version.
I've tried 3 different FTP programs and my hosting control panel to chmod the directory, but nothing's working.
I'll ask my host about permissions. Does anyone have any idea why this would have happened?
Some hosts will only allow you to ch mod to 755, not 777. Might try that as well...
This is also true.
It will let me chmod the entire directory to 777, just not that one file, and I can't do anything with it. I can delete it, but I'm afraid that won't let me uninstall.
Its probably because of ownership. If you don't own a file as the user on the server, then you cannot change its properties. You'll have to get your host to do it for you.
Okay, I've successfully uninstalled with the help of my host. Now back to my original problem. Nothing happens when I (apparently successfully) install TP. Nothing shows up anywhere. Am I missing something?
You'll need to do a manual install if the package manager is not working for you.
Forgive me, but I'm pretty new to this. How do I manually install?
If you read the documentation in the Docs board, there's a how-to for the manual installation.