Question Details for Install

From all the research I've done into installing Kunena, there is no comprehensive guide that explains in detail what needs to be done.

For example:

What directory do the files upload to?
• Should it be the root directory?
• Should it be a designated folder? (/forums or /kunena)

What specific file starts the install through the Joomla installer?
• Is it a component or a module or a mambot?

As you can tell, I'm quite new to Kunena and Joomla in general. I can already tell how powerful it is, but the simple things are still beyond me as documentation is a bit scarce, if not just completely vague.

Any help is much appreciated.

Kunena is a Joomla extension; it is installed as a component. The prerequisites for Kunena are listed at Technical Requirements .

Kunena 1.0.10 is the latest stable public release. Kunena 1.0.10 should be installed on Joomla 1.5.x running in "legacy mode" - see Legacy mode . For more reasons than I have the time or space to devote to this subject, you should not attempt to install Kunena on a Joomla 1.0.x website. Because of this

What specific file starts the install through the Joomla installer?
• Is it a component or a module or a mambot?

- these questions have no signficance or meaning in a Joomla 1.5 environment.

Work has been ongoing for the past six weeks (or thereabouts) on a Joomla 1.5 native version of Kunena. This version (codenamed Kunena 1.5) is still under development. If you have never used Kunena before, do not attempt to download and install this version!

Kunena 1.0.10 works!

An overview of the installation procedure is given at Installation instructions . Version-specific instructions are provided in the readme.txt file accompanying the installation kit.

There is no need to answer the questions

What directory do the files upload to?
• Should it be the root directory?
• Should it be a designated folder? (/forums or /kunena)

because these questions are not applicable when installing other Joomla extensions either. Kunena, like all other Joomla 1.5 extensions, are installed with the Joomla Extension Manager.

I appreciate the reply, but your response for detailed instructions were more vague than the ones I found in the link you posted (and I've reviewed 30 times).

Quite simply, what directory should I upload to since it will inevitably time-out?

In conjunction with that, what is the directory name that I should provide for the installer?

/home/content/d/e/r/MYDATABASENAME/html/nullify/administrator/components/com_installer/component

This is the default, but when I try uploading to /temp and installing, it gives me a white page after about 4 minutes of waiting.

Here's the error I get from trying the .gz version of the download.

Invalid checksum for file "::spacer(); mosMenuBar::publish(); mosMenuBar::spacer(); mosMenuBar::unpu" : 35311 calculated, 0 expected

Kermitdude wrote:

Quite simply, what directory should I upload to since it will inevitably time-out?

What version of Joomla are you running? How do you know the installation will inevitably time-out?

The short answer is this: as Matias wrote in #15746 deposit the unzipped Kunena installation kit in "some directory in your server and then install it from there". I would suggest creating a folder in your site root directory called /Kunena_installation_kit ... that's just my suggestion. After you've installed you can delete the installation directory and its files.

Don't use the .gz version. Try the .zip version.