Install path under "Action" is wrong...why?

[DenverMike]

I'm seeing this on three different hosts that I have. It's killing me because I REALLY don't want to do the manual edits. Despite people saying "it's not that hard", it's still time consuming and highly error prone. With that said...

Clean install of SMF 1.1.4. Nothing else done to it. No themes, no other packages, nada.
I go into the package manager, upload TP_0983.zip.
I go to apply the mod
It wants to change permissions - done.
Yet when I get to the install actions page, everything wants to install in "./" which is the root under my user name. The forum itself is at /home/<user>/domains/familyhost.org/public_html/immo and the FTP path is just /domains/familyhost.org/public_html/immo (which is what SMF wants, not the relative server path, no biggie).

So now, when the package manager goes to install TP, it puts it in /home/<user>/

Why? I've had this working before on earlier versions of TP (back in the 0.8 days).
Apache 2.2.6
PHP 5.2.5
MySQL 5.0.45

Any advice is greatly appreciated as I don't think the file edits (which again are error prone and time consuming) are really a reasonable approach.

[DenverMike]

Problem is, after this is done, my front page doesn't load (it does only there's code everywhere) and if I hit the admin panel, there is no "Tiny Portal" menu on the left. And each page load creates 21 pages of errors in the error log

[Dragooon]

You are missing a point here(The period ( . )).
It means the path till the root where your Index.php is, If it was Only a slash without the period then it was something wrong, but with the period it must be fine.

[Zetan]

Also you can check the correct path

Admin > Configuration/Server Settings

• Forum URL     
  
• SMF Directory    
  
• Sources Directory
  

[DenverMike]

the SFM directory stuff in the admin CP is fine. I verified all that. It's only TinyPortal. As I said, everything is installing in the user root directory (the first directory you get to when you FTP in to the server) instead of where SMF is actually installed. So for example:

SMF is installed (and working just fine) at /home/<user>/domains/familyhost.org/public_html/immo   (this is the web root).

When TP goes to install, it installs in /home/<user>/
I can verify that because all the directories that TP wants to install gets installed there. Again, this is a brand new SMF install as in I installed SMF and the very next step is to upload the TP.zip file to the package manager and then hit install then apply.

The end result is a mangled forum home and an admin CP that lacks anything for TP and a slew of errors. This is across three different physical servers. I've been trying to migrate a few older SMF forums w/ TP that I've hosted for friends to my new servers. I'm thinking it's not going to happen, at least not w/ SMF and TP.  =\

[Zetan]

Have you tried any other packages?

[Dragooon]

Did you read my post? For everyone its like that and it should be fine.
When you install what happens? Do you get blank spaces? Also where are the files?
What language do you use?
How did you installed SMF?

[DenverMike]

yes I read your post and as I stated, when I install I get code snippets all over the forum home and there is no tiny portal box on the admin page. I also explicitly spelled out where the files were.

SMF files are installed (and SMF is working flawlessly) at /home/<user>/domains/familyhost.org/public_html/immo

When I hit install on TP, it installs its files at
/home/<user>/

I'm talking in relative paths on the file system. I'm using us english (everything is UTF-8) and i'm not sure what you mean by how did I install SMF. I installed SMF like I would a default install.

@ZTN, I installed some other mods after the fact and they went in just fine.

[Zetan]

I know you are frustrated, but we are trying to help you.

Can you confirm for me exactly which package you are downloading and provide the link?

[G6Cad]

What you say should not even be possible, when you click the install button in your paclage manager, the tree that checks where every thing is located and where files and changes will be made is correct, you would get errors from every single one of them during the check if the installer couldent find the files and tree directory it looks for.
So the explaining you do here is eather wrong, or you have another install of TP where you look and think it's actually the one giving you the issues you have.

The actuall SMF install, open your adminpanel and check the server settings and check the paths there, that will be the path where you find TP installed to.