I was installing tinyportal 1.05 package fresh to a SMF 1.1.4 forum.
During install I was asked to enter my ftp login info, after entering that info I was able to install the package. After applying the mod 1.05 I got a IE error screen. I used the back button and hit refresh to see if it installed. The apply mod link is still there for tinyportal so I tried again and now I get this error:
QuoteYou cannot download or install new packages because the Packages directory or one of the files in it are not writable!
I checked my packages folder and it is set to 777 and any files in that folder I made 777.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Nick
If your servers settings are to tight with permissions, it doesent matter if you set everything to 755 or 777, you have to install the TP package manually.
The packagemanager cant create or add or change any file because the server dont allowe it to.
You can try to contact your host and see if they can change the permissions for you, but most likly they will not, so manually install TP is the way to go.
Actually I am my host, this is hosted on a dedicated server that I run. I am able to install other packages though without problem.
Ok, wasn't sure if this would work but I cleared my cache etc. logged back in and tried to apply mod again. I might have missed this the first time but there is an error in the actions screen:
QuoteExecute Modification ./Themes/babylon/index.template.php Test failed
Everything else came back successful. Is that causing a problem?
The error you get is usually generated because some other mod ( or not the default theme ) have changed some or more of the code the installer looks for.
You can go ahead and install with that error, but you have to manually edit the index.template.php file and add the TP code in there.
The Modinstruction in the doc section show what code and where to add it
Ok, I went ahead with the install and everything worked. I didn't make any changes to the index.template.php and it still seems to be working.