I disabled lockdown and i still cant install on the backend.

Hello,

Can you please offer more details related to this issue ? Are you able to access the Joomla installer ? or upon trying to install you get errors ?

I have a similar problem. On all of my sites after installing RSFirewall and protecting my sites, I can no longer install components. I have my open_basedir and configuration.php pointing to the right directory. The error is "There was an error uploading this file to the server." The file is 742kb.

I tried re-pointing them to inside public_html, but that doesn;t work either. Suggestions? My site score is 78.

Same problem here. In desperation, I finally UNinstalled RSJoomla to see if I could install ANYTHING.

No Joy.

Nothing. No components...no modules...no plugins. Nothing will install.

I am at a complete loss.

Any ideas would be Greatly Appreciated.

Thanks.

OK. So

-1- I uploaded a component ZIP file to my jtemp folder
-2- extracted it
-3- used the "Install from Folder" option

it worked.


Still...this is rather inconvenient

Thanks.

Hello,

Please make sure that you have the correct permissions set for /components, /administrator/components and for your Joomla! tmp folder in order to install other extensions. The recommended permissions are the following:

755 for /components, 755 for administrator/components, 777 for /media and 777 for /tmp

I've tried editing the permissions and it still doesn't work across several sites.

/host/tmp 0777
/host/tmp/sitetmp 0777
/host/public_html/media 0777

When I try to install from the /TMP as from a directory, it says "Please enter a package directory" no matter what file I try.

Any ideas?

I got post #9398's method to work, but not simpler process.

Same here I got the installing from the tmp file to work but still can't use Joomla installer. It looks like I am not the only one having this problem.

Hello,

You can try to disable the System plug-in of RSFirewall! and so the component will be disabled along with the System Lockdown.If the problem persists then the issue is not generated by the component.

I've been having the same issue and it is a problem caused indirectly by RSFirewall.

When RSFirewall created a php.ini with the following line:

open_basedir=/home/sites/mywebsite.com/public_html:/home/sites/mywebsite.com/joomlalogs

my installs stopped working.

By editing the line to:

open_basedir=/home/sites/mywebsite.com/public_html:/home/sites/mywebsite.com/joomlalogs:/tmp

the problem is solved.

Hope this helps someone.

Nice, you are right, adding that line it works!!

RSFirewall staff, can you explain why?. I made a clean isntall:

Install joomla 1.6.2 ok
Install rsfirewall ok
Made all ok values in system check with website grade 91.
Upload and install module ok
Disable system plug-in of RSFirewall ok
Upload and install module ok
Enable system plug-in of RSFirewall ok
Upload and isntall module ok
Enable System Lockdown ok
Upload and install module failed
Disable System Lockdown ok
Upload and install module failed

Regards