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DropHit,

Thanks, your ownership comment made sense and thats the angle I am pursuing. I have found in help/system info that all folders are 'unwritable'. Cool huh? I need to wait to speak to the tech support at the webhost about this because I can't see any way to correct it on my end. Since they all appear to be 'writeable' when the permissions are viewed via filezilla. Thats why I think you may be right about ownership.

I'll be back when they respond.

Thanks,

HNM

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Amanda Watson

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snowball77,

Thanks for the comment, as I said to DropHit above your comment, they are all 'unwritable' and I'm waiting for the hosting tech support to assist me with it. I'll be back with my update after I speak with them.

Thanks!

HMM

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StormITSolutions & joomla_php:

Which folder do you mean.. tmp? And what should the permissions be?

Thanks

HNM

Do other experts not see the comments made on each post? Seems that everyone is simply posting a re-hash of each others comments... lenamtl: - this is my suggestion 2 days ago..

Also, tmp folder should be writeable prob 757 -- inside the root of Joomla install

Amanda Watson

If you go to Global Configuration and click on "server" you will find your " Path to Temp-folder "

You can check this with your system info (HELP > SYSTEM INFO)

Check the path to the tmp folder within the system info and make sure that is what is used in the Path to Temp-Folder

You might find this document handy too

http://docs.joomla.org/Why_can%27t_you_install_any_extensions%3F

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A lot of times in a server move, Joomla thinks the "system" temporary folder is how the old server defined it, but that's not where the new server says it is.

The system temp folder is way above your website's root.

A typical structure would be:

/usr/tmp <- system temporary folder
/home/yoursite <- above your site's public root
/home/yoursite/public_html <-your site's public root

Joomla gets the temporary folder address from site configuration.php:
var $tmp_path = 'whatever'

The easiest way to make this host-independent but still secure (not public) is to create:
/home/yoursite/tmp

And set
var $tmp_path = '/home/yoursite/tmp';

** Please note that depending on the configuration of the server your tmp folder may be anywhere starting at the root of the site and heading up the tree to the /tmp folder ..

Case in point this server running plesk:

var $tmp_path = '/var/www/vhosts/********.com/httpdocs/corp/tmp';

The site sits at http://yourdomain.com/corp/

As shown from the joomla configuration line above the root IS at thr root of the joomla install NOT outside of the jailed website. Most VHOSTS will not allow a user to emply anything outsite of the host root.

Z.Miles
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lenamtl

Hi DropHit, sorry about it, I probably read you comment to fast.

I'm not here to helping other user just for earning points.
I did FREE support in the Joomla community since mambo 1994 to Joomla 2009.
Just make a quick search with my username and you see how many our I spent helping users for free.