Question [resolved] Default template shows kunena.forum.css as unwritable

Tonight when I went about upgrading my sites to the new Kunena version (1.6.1) everything went smooth until I got to my last site. During the instal it showed a red band stating something was "unwritable." When I looked at the control panel though it showed v1.6.1 installed, but the default template did not show that it was upgraded. When I looked in to it further it shows the "kunena.forum.css" as unwritable. Is this the source of the problem? If so how do I fix it? I really want to try the new template out. I should point out that I am not using the default template since it did not match very well with my site.

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wood_68046 wrote: Tonight when I went about upgrading my sites to the new Kunena version (1.6.1) everything went smooth until I got to my last site. During the instal it showed a red band stating something was "unwritable." When I looked at the control panel though it showed v1.6.1 installed, but the default template did not show that it was upgraded. When I looked in to it further it shows the "kunena.forum.css" as unwritable. Is this the source of the problem? If so how do I fix it? I really want to try the new template out. I should point out that I am not using the default template since it did not match very well with my site.

That means that Joomla does not have the permissions to change that file. Maybe you copied or edited that file through ftp or another access method a while back.

Unfortunately the Joomla component installer will not be able to copy files it does not have file system permissions to.

It is best to check this out via command line (e.g ssh terminal).

if you perform a

on that directory, you will see the owner, group and permissions information of that file (and others). The owner should be the same as for the rest of the Joomla install (e.g. apache). To change the file owner you will have to use the

command.

Unfortunately file permissions are outside of the control of Kunena and even Joomla, once change by other means, Joomla has no way to replace a file it does not have control over.

Hoep this helps!

Thanks, I appreciate the tip. Unfortunately its above my head :lol: . Here is what it looks like:


Is there a way I can use FTP to make it writable?

You can do a CHMOD using FileZilla (or some other FTP client program) by changing the file permissions (change the file permissions to 755) but I don't know how to do a CHOWN in Filezilla.

CHMOD might be all you need to do.

That did the trick, thanks for the help!