Question Installing Kunena give an error Extract_Failed

Hi all,

I'm fairly new to Joomla and Kunena but trying in install the xip package through the Install Extension Manager in Joomla fails for both Kunena version 1.5 and 1.6 on a relatively fresh install of Joomla 1.5.2

1.6 give the following feedback:

1: COM_KUNENA_INSTALL_STEP_PREPARE ... OK
1: Create kunena_version ... OK
2: COM_KUNENA_INSTALL_EXTRACT_STATUS ... OK
2: COM_KUNENA_INSTALL_EXTRACT_STATUS ... OK
2: COM_KUNENA_INSTALL_EXTRACT_STATUS ... Failed COM_KUNENA_INSTALL_EXTRACT_FAILED

I have given permission to all other users to be able to create/delete files with read/write access in both the administrator/component and components folder. It appears as though Kunena gets partially through the install as folders called com_Kunena have been creating in both of these location (although they are locked to my user privileges as they have been created by a different user process).

Are there any other folders I need to change the permission on? I have checked the documentation although there is nothing else listed as a possible issue.

Cheers.

Which version are you trying to install? This is because Kunena RC should use English language strings if they do not exist in current translation. What is your language?

Anyway, installing in English would reveal that Kunena is trying to install data into media/kunena/.

All the languages are left to defaults with English.

I will look at the media/kunena/ directory and will allow all access to it.

Not sure what happened when I installed Apache, MySQL and PHP, then Joomla (under Ubuntu), but the whole directory structure was essentially owned by a different user. Although you can regain ownership, all the folder/file permissions for "others" are then only set to read only. I have had to 'unlock' directories as I go when attempting to install and packages. Problem is, it is never clear what directories need unprotected - it may be as easy to all full access to 'others' to the whole Joomla folder structure.

Joomla let's web server to create all the files (if you're not using FTP mode), so you need to give web server rights to write into them. Please read how to setup Joomla from their documentation.