Installation of DOCman AutoThumb

Posted by on Mar 12, 2009 in Joomla, Web Development | No Comments

Another DOCman issue, this time with a plugin I hadn’t tried before called AutoThumb 1.41. Installing through the normal ZIP upload method returned the following error: JFTP::mkdir: Bad response JFTP::chmod: Bad response JInstaller::install: Failed to create directory. “/[path]/plugins/docman/autothumb/libraries/phpthumb/cache/source” Install mambot Error Looks like a permissions issue, and it is. It turns out that initially installing […]

Installation of the DOCman Joomla Plugin

Posted by on Jan 12, 2009 in Joomla, Web Development | No Comments

Ok, there are a couple of gotchas when installing DOCman 1.4x with Joomla 1.5x. The readme.txt file is less than helpful, but the short version is this: Temporarily allow 777 permissions on the following three directories (this can be found in the DOCman support forum): / /administrator/modules/ /plugins/ Install plugin as normal (I uploaded the […]