Sticky [Merged Topic] JFolder::create: Could not create directory

I am able to upload a picture for my avatar by changing permission from 755 to 777. 777 is bad for security so I am still trying to figure another way out but my uploaded avatar does not show on my profile

Everything is in order now,I can't really pinpoint what I did, but I enabled my ftp layer which I was advised to disable. I decided to enable it again and I filled the settings below in my site config

FTP Settings
Enable FTP
FTP Host
FTP Port
FTP Username
FTP Password
FTP Root

Its working all fine now, thanks you.

Thank you, jekwumoore.

This means that this discussion topic can now be closed.

Hi everyone

I have a Joomla 1.5.22 instalation and decide to install kunena 1 6 php5.2.9
Installed fine from the url link

A forum menu link was created by the instalation

when i click the link the forum front page opens but i get a JFolder::create: Could not create directory
error across the top.

I have searched for this on the forum and have temporarily given 777 permissions to all joomla directorys that appear in the joomla list and they are all writable
But the error still occurs.


In am no expert can someone please advise what i need to do to resolve this please
as searching on the problem the only thing i could see was set permissions to 777 temporarily
What directory is it trying to create?

many thanks Henryparrot

What's the path to temp folder in your global configuration? Try setting it to only /tmp

Thnkyou for replying Baze
My global config server settings for path to temp folder are : /home/handsted/public_html/tmp

So am i correct in assuming that is already set correctly to what you said

or have i misread what you said and need to change the above?

many thanks

Henryparrot