Installation Problem! Please help!

[shockthemonkey]

Hi guys, I am relatively new to Joomla and I have encountered a problem while trying to install a component (Joomlaboard & ExtCalender) I read the user guides on how to go about installing them but to no avil.

I always get this error while installing ExtCalender:

Failed to create directory "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\joomla\administrator\components\com_extcalendar\"

JoomlaBoard:

ERROR: Could not find an XML setup file in the package.
and
Installation file not found:
C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\joomla\media\install_44ac60507175c\

Any idea? Help would be much appreciated.

[Vimes]

Does Joomla have write access to \media\
Does Joomla have write access to \administrator\components?

[shockthemonkey]

media/ Writeable
administrator/components/ Writeable
components/ Writeable
images/stories/ Writeable

Yes I have write access. When i tried installing the com.zip file within the joomlaboard.zip, i recieved this error message that says that it is unable to create the com_joomla folder, BUT the thing is when i manually go into the directory. THERE IS INDEED A COM_JOOMLA. Its absurd!

[Vimes]

Stupid question -> Do you have sufficient disk space to perform the install? You may find that although you have plenty of quota, the actual machine might have run out of room for it.

[shockthemonkey]

i have 60.2gb of free space. i don think that is a problem.

[kc5mhb]

Could it be a path problem?  I just started using Joomla and when I tried to install modules and components, I realized that I had to change the directory on the install from box to %systemroot%/joomla/modules/modulename/ .  What would come up normally would look like %systemroot%/joomla/administrator/modules/mod_installer/modulename/ .  Does this make any sense?  Just check your install from path to make sure it is correct.  Also I had to delete a failed install module from the modules folder before it would reinstall correctly.  Incidently, I have not been able to install via upload, I have had to ftp up to my host and then install.  Hope this helps 

[shockthemonkey]

Okay lets say if I would to put the ExtCalendar file into wwwroot folder, so the address would look like this:

C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\joomla\components\ExtCalender

This is the same address that I would insert under the Installer in the admin mode right?

[kc5mhb]

Don't forget the trailing '/', or in your case '\'.  I am on a hosted server so my folder location was a bit longer, but yes I think that it is looking for the exact location of the folder.  I tried at some point to cut and paste info into the install box and found out that it didn't always work, so I ended up deleting all the stuff after the /joomla/ and adding the proper location and file names.

Just a thought as I am no expert by any means.


Hope this helps you out 

[harry]

hi there, I also have somewhat similar installation problem when I tried to install any component or mambots. 
FYI I just convert mambo to the latest version of Joomla to my existence mambo by simply uploading all the joomla file.

here's error message that I got when I tried to install the component

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare uploadpackage() (previously declared in /home/public_html/mam/administrator/components/com_installer/admin.installer.php:77) in /home/public_html/mam/administrator/components/com_installer/admin.installer.php on line 77

can anybody give a hand ?

thanks in advance
Harry