Friday 27 January 2012

Joomla 2.5 installation tips !

I've just installed Joomla 2.5 and had to work a couple of things out for myself as theres no installation guide for this version at the time of writing. Infact the readme text included was for upgrading from 1.7 .

* download the full Joomla 2.5 package here

* install on your server and head for the installation folder /installation

* follow instructions and that;s it


However I then got the following message

'A file permissions error has occurred.'

You then need to change all your folder permissions to 755 and files to 644.

Except for the configuration.php file which should be 444

AFTER DOING THIS I WAS STILL GETTING THE 'A file permissions error has occurred.'

I googled 'joomla 2.5 installation A file permissions error has occurred.'

the solution was that I overlooked the public_html/ folder (doh!) that needs to be 755 also.

SOLVED :)

2 comments:

Sonia. said...

Thank you!! I haven't used Joomla 2.5 yet (only ever made sites with J1.5 and J1.7) so I was getting quite frustrated until I found this post!

Sonia. said...

Thank you!! I've not installed a Joomla site since J1.7 so I was getting quite frustrated with this error for J2.5! Phew!