Paying for Joomla
By jef2904 - April 1st, 2008
When some one buys a hosting service they should be able to install anything they want on the that server as long as it is legal and Joomla is an open-source software making it legal to install anywere. There for i should not have the headaches i've had installing joomla. I still have not been able to install it because the php sessions folder is not writable i have tried everything to no avail. It seems as if ipower just wants to lose its clients and any referrals from those clients. Because the next time some one asks me what hosting to use im going to tell them that as long as they are using anything other than ipower they will be just fine.
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Hey, you just need to go into the php.ini and change the location of where it writes files. I will admit they do make it harder for the average user, I am having one trouble after the sessions thing and that is my registration page is buggered up, although I doubt it has anything to do with the sessions.
how to..
Switch it over to PHP5 then hit the edit button.
find this line in your php.ini
session.save_path = "add/your/location/to/writable/folder/here/"
now you need to create that folder, do not do it in your http root, create a directory along side public_html and set it's permissions to writeable, (I used 766)
you should be good to go :) hope this helps, next time rather than starting a blog you may want to google the topic ;)
For people getting "Cookies do not appear to be enabled on your browser client. You will not be able to install the application with this feature disabled. Alternatively, there could also be a problem with the server's session.save_path" when installing Joomla using ipower's webhosting with vdeck 3.0 here is the fix.
goto the control panel and find the Scripting and Add-Ons section -
click CGI and Scripted Language Support
On this page you will see all the supported languages -
click PHP Scripting - Make your site dynamic with PHP.
On this page you will see bulleted points - the first one Path to your Web document root:
this path is used when you modify the php.ini. If you read the page it tells you to make sure to set the correct php version, depending on what your php runs on - whether php4 or php5.
you can do a simple find - session.save_path - hint the one you need to edit will be this for php5
; where MODE is the octal representation of the mode. Note that this
; does not overwrite the process's umask.
; session.save_path = "/tmp"
just remove the semicolon in front of
session.save_path =
and change the path - here you will use the path on the first line - plus the path to the folder to be used for the session. make sure you enclose the path in quotes "/home/users/web/" - your path will be longer
sessionspath folder - the poster above suggests using chmod 766 but chmod 744 will and is more secure.
Just make sure you create a folder with the premissions
If you run into any problems with setting up a database - vdeck 3.0 has all the information you need to setup the database. Click MySQL Management on that page it shows you any databases you have and the usernames. below the usernames is a line - Database is on xxxxxxxxxxx.ipowermysql.com this is the path to your database.
The database name will in the blue highlighted section at the top of the usernames.
It would be much better if ipowerweb had a wiki.
If you are copying and pasting from iPower, particularly when it comes to creating the MySQL settings, make sure you don't accidently copy any trailing or leading black spaces--they'll mess up the name of your database!
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