Anybody sucsefuly used Akeeba or Joomlapack with ISPC3?

[DaRKNeSS666NL]

Hi all,

Here am I again

I have managed to get things up and running on my server I have created 2 sites and I can aces the welcome page on them.

I was trying to start moving a site from my home server to the server in the data center. My sites are Joomla! based and I use Akeeba Pro to make backups of them.

I uploaded the site archive and the execution file (kickstart.php) on to the server, and than its going wrong.
I can execute the kickstart.php file but upon extraction I get rights errors:

Could not open /var/www/clients/client4/web2/web/installation/css/img/busy.gif for writing.

Even if I set the whole dir to chmod 777 I can't get permission.
If I log in with FTP I can make directories and put files in them, so than all is fine.

So guys what am I missing here??

TIA

[Toucan]

I have successfully used joomla pack on isconfig3 before.

I normally set the site to modphp.

when you set the whole directory to 777 did you use the

chmod -R 777 yourjoomla directory name

?
make sure you include the -R to recursively unrestrict the whole directory.

Don't forget to reapply restrictions!

[till]

For joomla it is recommended to use php-fastcgi + suexec, so that joomla has full wite access to all of its diretories without the need to use chmod 777 and this configuration is also safer then using mod_php, as every website runs under its own user then.

[DaRKNeSS666NL]

Originally Posted by till

For joomla it is recommended to use php-fastcgi + suexec, so that joomla has full wite access to all of its diretories without the need to use chmod 777 and this configuration is also safer then using mod_php, as every website runs under its own user then.

Till,

I already knew that I have to use suexec and php-fastcgi so they are enabled.
I have uploaded the site with filezilla so the files would or must have the right settings I thought.

But I can't get It to work for me.

Guess I wil put back my backup and start over again, only thing I can imagine is I have used the wrong follow up of things.
I think I first uploaded the file and after that I set the settings for the site, found something in an other topic that that is the wrong way off doing things.

[till]

Please post the output of:

ls -la /var/www/clients/client4/web2/web/installation/css/img/

and which Linux distribution do you use?

[DaRKNeSS666NL]

Originally Posted by till

Please post the output of:

ls -la /var/www/clients/client4/web2/web/installation/css/img/

and which Linux distribution do you use?

output:

server1:~# ls -la /var/www/clients/client4/web2/web/installation/css/img/
ls: cannot access /var/www/clients/client4/web2/web/installation/css/img/: No such file or directory

But that's normal I guess because the Akeeba backup is put in the:
/var/www/clients/client4/web2/web/ and than must extract it self to that dir, but if I haven't the wright permission it won't get extracted.

I am using Debian Lenny setup the perfect way.

TIA

[till]

Please extract the backup. The above error message is caused by the fact that the backup has not been extracted yet, so it does not identify any problem on its own.

If you have enabled fastcgi and the suexec checkbox, then all php scripts have write permissions to the web folder.

Please post the output of:

ls -la /var/www/clients/client4/web2/web/

[DaRKNeSS666NL]

Originally Posted by till

Please extract the backup. The above error message is caused by the fact that the backup has not been extracted yet

That I know, but the working of Akeeba is that it extract for me with the kickstart.php file.

Originally Posted by till

Please post the output of:
ls -la /var/www/clients/client4/web2/web/

server1:~# ls -la /var/www/clients/client4/web2/web/
total 3388924
drwx--x--- 4 web2 client4       4096 2010-06-09 23:23 .
drwxr-x--x 7 web2 client4       4096 2010-06-10 10:35 ..
drwxrwxrwx 2 web2 client4       4096 2010-06-08 19:57 error
-rwxrwxrwx 1 web2 client4     182485 2010-05-20 17:55 kickstart.php
-rwxrwxrwx 1 web2 client4 3466658258 2010-06-09 23:23 site-www.g-visions.nl-20100609-083146.jpa
drwxrwxrwx 2 web2 client4       4096 2010-06-09 00:30 stats

[till]

The permissions of the files are fine. What is the complete screen output (error messages) if you start this kickstart.php file?

[DaRKNeSS666NL]

Originally Posted by till

The permissions of the files are fine. What is the complete screen output (error messages) if you start this kickstart.php file?

Here is my screendump:

Again some permissions isu I think.

I have formatted my testserver (local) and I am reinstalling it to test it here locally, maybe I did something wrong with the server in the dc??

Also I will give it a try at my live server with ISPC2 on it (it always have worked on there) to see if there something wrong with the backup image and or install php script.