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Title: [SOLVED] A problem with the PowerBoard installation
Post by: pcfun on June 18, 2007, 01:05:20
Does anybody know why i face this problem when i try to install powerboard?

Αποτυχία δημιουργίας καταλόγου "/file/components/com_powerboard/avatars/gallery"

In english: Fail to create the folder "/file/components/com_powerboard/avatars/gallery"
Title: Re: A problem with the PowerBoard installation
Post by: Ivan Trebješanin on June 18, 2007, 01:19:41
Obviously it's a read/write problem, but I don't know what are your server's default permissions for newly created files/folders?
Title: Re: A problem with the PowerBoard installation
Post by: pcfun on June 18, 2007, 01:46:31
every new folder is created with 755 permissions. Every other component can be installed and created folders and subfolders. Why PowerBoard no?
Title: Re: A problem with the PowerBoard installation
Post by: Ivan Trebješanin on June 18, 2007, 02:10:44
We'll see... I've noticed different behavior on different servers...
Title: Re: A problem with the PowerBoard installation
Post by: datahell on June 18, 2007, 07:33:27
/file/components/com_powerboard/avatars/gallery

What is file?
Title: Re: A problem with the PowerBoard installation
Post by: pcfun on June 18, 2007, 10:55:24
it is the folder in wich i have done the installation of Elxis.
Title: Re: A problem with the PowerBoard installation
Post by: datahell on June 18, 2007, 13:15:35
Did you finally manage to install it?
Only the folder /file/components/com_powerboard/avatars/gallery can not be created or the installation procedure stops there and the files have been half-copied?

Try to delete everything, frontend and backend files and all PwoerBoard's tables from the database (they have a prefix of pb_ after the Elxis prefix). If the problem persists send me a PM with username/password to your site backend/phpmyadmin to check what is happening.
Title: Re: A problem with the PowerBoard installation
Post by: Ivan Trebješanin on June 18, 2007, 14:07:12
One more question: is your FTP support turned on in admin panel?
Title: Re: A problem with the PowerBoard installation
Post by: pcfun on June 18, 2007, 14:56:11
One more question: is your FTP support turned on in admin panel?

Yes. The FTP is supported.


Did you finally manage to install it?
Only the folder /file/components/com_powerboard/avatars/gallery can not be created or the installation procedure stops there and the files have been half-copied?

Try to delete everything, frontend and backend files and all PwoerBoard's tables from the database (they have a prefix of pb_ after the Elxis prefix). If the problem persists send me a PM with username/password to your site backend/phpmyadmin to check what is happening.

The installation is never completed. It creates powerboard folders in .../components and in .../administrator/components but it doesn' t create anything in the database.
Title: Re: A problem with the PowerBoard installation
Post by: datahell on June 18, 2007, 20:03:53
That was the problem! I imagined this from the first time when I saw your absolute path... I disabled FTP and PowerBoard installed just fine. Your server is in mess, you should consider changing host some time. When you install anything disable FTP, you can afterwards re-anable it again. I deleted MamboBoard and JoomlaBoard forums. You also have many components that are not Elxis compatible. You should remove all of them.

Welcome to PowerBoard!

A notice to all: PowerBoard is a component that needs space. Do not corner it in small width templates. Use a second modified template for PowerBoard without for example the right column, or with out any column! Here is an example from Zlatko Dumanic (Croatia):

elxis.biz - croatia (http://www.elxis.biz/index.php?option=com_powerboard&Itemid=2)
Title: Re: [SOLVED] A problem with the PowerBoard installation
Post by: pcfun on June 18, 2007, 20:30:08
Thank you really much. I havent't words