Topic: SME / Virtuamart / Joomla / tmp problem

[seabro]

Hi,

I have been struggling for hours trying to work this one out and having read pages and pages of this site and others, I learned the following.

Hopefully, this will help any others trying to get joomla / virtuamart and SME to work.

When I installed joomla/virtuamart I was 'warned' /tmp was not writeable.  So I used CHMOD 777 /tmp. This did not work.

Eventually, the following did work.

[root@e-smith ]# /sbin/e-smith/db accounts setprop youribayname PHPBaseDir /home/e-smith/files/ibays/youribayname/:/tmp/

[root@e-smith ]# /sbin/e-smith/signal-event ibay-modify youribayname

This will allow PHP to write to your /tmp directory.

I hope this helps,

seabro

[judgej]

This comes up over and over - *don't* open up /tmp for access to PHP. *do* fix the applications that are trying to read and write /tmp

This page explains it all:

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.move-uploaded-file.php

*do* raise this requirement as a bug with Joomla/phprojekt/virtuamart/etc.

-- JJ

[jjcuk]

Thanks Sean  that worked

[Rien]

Hi,

I did the following:

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/sbin/e-smith/db accounts setprop ibayname PHPBaseDir /home/e-smith/files/ibays/ibayname/:/tmp

/sbin/e-smith/signal-event ibay-modify ibayname

where "ibayname" is the name of the ibay.

I don't speak english very well. Can you explain why that's the wrong way?