so it can be written to by the server to add stuff from the marketplace. I haven't sat down with an apache book yet (really I should) but I think that is the baseline recommendation i remember reading elsewhere in regard to packages. I am not 100% sure it is in the config notes, I am about 95% sure this isn't checked with the install screen although it probably should be.

I have chmod 777 the packages folder to no avail.

The system is attempting to download the file to your system's temporary directory, which is usually /tmp/. (We also check a couple of other places.)

Unfortunately, it looks like /tmp/ isn't setup on your system. Could it be full or not used? This may be a question for your system administrator.

I have added a new folder called tmp to the root of my webspace and I am now getting even more errors:-


Warning: fopen() [function.fopen]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 751004 is not allowed to access /tmp owned by uid 0 in /customers/familyclifford.co.uk/familyclifford.co.uk/httpd.www/concrete/helpers/package.php on line 95

Warning: fopen(/tmp/1244283635.zip) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /customers/familyclifford.co.uk/familyclifford.co.uk/httpd.www/concrete/helpers/package.php on line 95

This is a good thing I think.

My site is live onhttp://www.familyclifford.co.uk

/tmp is a directory in the root of your server

a directory called tmp in your webspace isn't located in the root and therefore isn't equal to /tmp

I get you.

I'll just have to download them manually.

Is there a plan for the downloads to go to a webspace in the future or it a limitation on the php?

If your php can't access the tmp folder (or another temp directory) there's probably a problem with your server configruation.

It's also possible that concrete5 gets a wrong value. I've seen this before but I think Andrew fixed it a while ago...

If c5 thinks it can write and read temp files from /tmp it won't work of course..

...then I realized that the temporary directory set in the environment simply wasn't accessible, but that the php.ini my web host used had a sessions_save path that was indeed writable by me. So I wrote a little patch to make the temporary directory configurable, and that now lives athttp://www.concrete5.org/community/bugs/fixes/patch_make_temporary_... .