Joomla 1.5 and CiviCRM 1.8 beta - still no joy?

[rogerco]

Just tried to install on a Joomla 1.5Beta 2 [ Khepri ] with CiviCRM 1.8 beta 10790 and still getting the 'cant find installation package' error.
Is it working with Joomla 1.5RC1 ?
Do we know when 1.8 will work with Joomla1.5?

Yours patiently.
RogerCO

[Kurund Jalmi]

Roger:

Please check: http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Install+CiviCRM+1.8+for+Joomla

kurund

[rogerco]

hmm.
I hadn't spotted that legacy mode was needed so turned that on.

Now it gets one step further and gives the following error message
# JFTP::mkdir: Bad response
# JFTP::chmod: Bad response
# Component Install: Failed to create directory: "/home/roger/public_html/components/com_civicrm"

So I tried temporarily chmod'ing components to 777 but same result

To be fair this is a test Joomla install and I haven't installed any other Joomla extensions yet so it may be a Joomla config problem...

[Kurund Jalmi]

i hope you have

chmod -R 777 /home/roger/public_html/components/
chmod -R 777 /home/roger/public_html/administrator/components/

Also check if there is already "com_civicrm" folder. If yes, delete and try again.

HTH

kurund

[rogerco]

Trawling around the Joomla forums I find that many people are having this problem with Joomla 1.5 - nothing to do with CiviCRM. It seems that on some systems although Joomla installs and operates ok it is completely impossible to install extensions - looks like problems with the FTP system in Joomla which give the errors above.

Has anyone on here got a working Joomla 1.5 setup yet?

RogerCO

[senojeel]

I have troubles with the ftp in J1.5 too. I usually just disable it in the Global Configuration > Server Settings.  Usually whatever I am installing works after that.  I remember I did have to upload com_civicrm to my root and install from there first because it was too big for my shared host to use the com_installer.

[rogerco]

Yes I have solved it by reinstalling Joomla and ensuring that the same root account is used for ftp layer operations.

Now to get a proper look at CiviCRM - thank goodness the problem was Joomla not here :-)

RogerCO