Question Joomla 1.5.22 and kunena 1.6.1 JFolder::create: Could not create directory

Okay - I spend hours now searching for an answer but simply can't find a solution for it.

I used to run joomla 1.5.15 and kunena 1.5 and been so the past year without any issues. I bought a new domain and been trying with a clean installation of Joomla 1.5.22, allowed it to update Mootools and tested everything was working. After this I installed kunena 1.6.1 - and it went smooth with no problems. No matter what I tried so far I keep getting this error:

JFolder::create: Could not create directory

I search arround for some time to see what was wrong, and a lot of people said it was permissions - so I started from an end to give 777 permissions to everything - and ended out with every single file and folder on my ftp to have this permission and still the same error.

I decided I had to have done something wrong, so I removed everything and started over again. Now Im sitting with a fresh installation of joomla 1.5.22 and Kunena 1.6.1 - with everything on standard and mootols allowed to update - and same problem.

In my search for an answer I really wonder why there are no list telling you excatly what you need to give permissions for it to work.

What am I doing wrong? - my site: www.Qleap.eu/joomla

Hello,

Look here : help.ubuntu.com/community/Joomla#Configure%20Access%20Rights , you need to change the membership of files on your server. If you have a shared hosting, you can ask to your host if ut can do it for you.

I'll admit I have no clue what you are saying to me.

change the membership of files on your server

MMkhay... files....Can't seem to find any answers in your link either - will ask my host! Just wondering why this is suddently so hard to get working, got joomla 1.5.20 and Kunena 1.5 working on 4 sides, never had a problem....

My host have been looking into it and corrected all current settings, they can't see the problem so they asking me if I know what folder and where Kunena want to place it. Any help on this matter - since all permissions is back to original now!

All files are now in the media folder and not in images folder!

I had this problem and solved it by changing to CHMOD 777 /media/kunena/avatars and all sub folders, gallery, resized and users

We do not recommend CHMOD 777 for files or folders. See Securing Kunena .

Permissions issues are hard to remote diagnose. If Joomla complains that it cannot create a folder or write a file, we know one thing for sure: it is definitely a permissions issue on that server.

Never should a permissions problem be solved by removing permissions with chmod 777.

To start I recommend you run Inside your joomla main directory. Take a screen shot of the output and post it in here - preferably inside confidential become tags so only we can see it.

In addition please go to the Joomla backend and also take a screenshoot of the Joomla directory permissions screen.

That should give us an idea how your system permissions are setup.

My hosts have now installed suPHP which allows me to set CHMOD to recommended values