Magento

I’m trying to use the Magento Connect Downloader and keep getting the “Error: Please check for sufficient write file permissions” error.
I’ve even chmod 777 on all files and folders within my magento installation and it’s still not working.
Is there any other way to download these extensions? I was looking to download the Magento Modern Theme.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

If you have SSH, run the following commands:

That will reset all files to 644 and all directories to 777. After that you shouldn’t have any permissions errors. If you don’t have SSH and you’re hosted by someone, have them run this for you.

I contacted the host about running that.

Though, shouldn’t it still work with every file and folder set to 777?

what else could be my problem?

playforward - 19 June 2008 09:40 PM

I contacted the host about running that.

Though, shouldn’t it still work with every file and folder set to 777?

what else could be my problem?

Yes, but that error is telling you that this is not the case. Set the permissions and that error will go away.

ok, after my host ran that it allowed me to enter the KEY.

This is the error I get:

Failed to download magento-core/Interface_Frontend_Default_Modern within preferred state “stable”, latest release is version 1.0.19871, stability “beta”, use “channel://connect.magentocommerce.com/core/Interface_Frontend_Default_Modern-1.0.19871” to install
Cannot initialize ‘channel://connect.magentocommerce.com/core/Interface_Frontend_Default_Modern’, invalid or missing package file
Install Errors
Package “channel://connect.magentocommerce.com/core/Interface_Frontend_Default_Modern” is not valid
PEAR ERROR: install failed

Is there anything listed when you’re in MagentoConnect? You should see a bunch of extensions listed (the core ones for Magento). If not, enter the following into the extension key field and click the Install button:

Don’t forget to put a checkmark next to Clear all sessions after successfull install or upgrade.

Nothing was listed so I did what you mentioned and that downloaded a bit.

I tried to run the Modern theme again and it gave me another error (the same as before)

playforward - 20 June 2008 10:40 PM

Nothing was listed so I did what you mentioned and that downloaded a bit.

I tried to run the Modern theme again and it gave me another error (the same as before)

Go to the Settings tab in MagentoConnect and try changing your preferred state to either Beta or Stable. Whatever it’s on, switch it to the other.

Also, after you ran that command, do you see a bunch of core extensions in there?

ok, that worked. I didn’t realize that the Modern Theme was Beta.

Thanks for the help.
also, yes, the extensions are now shown.

Hey, you can also add “-beta” for the extension key, without changing the global settings

playforward - 21 June 2008 04:07 PM

also, yes, the extensions are now shown.

Great, well now you can update Magento using the downloader now and stay up to date

Oh, and great tip, Saharian, didn’t realize you could do that.

Congratulations! Your server meets the requirements for Magento.

* You have PHP 5.2.0 (or greater)
* Safe Mode is off
* You have MySQL 4.1.20 (or greater)
* You have the curl extension
* You have the dom extension
* You have the gd extension
* You have the hash extension
* You have the iconv extension
* You have the mcrypt extension
* You have the pcre extension
* You have the pdo extension
* You have the pdo_mysql extension
* You have the simplexml extension

But i cannot install extensions with the magento downlaoder :

- can set switch to beta setting
- nor even a stable download will give me a : INVALID POST DATA

Anyone ???

System works via php5-cgi admin little bit slow but shop is allright

Anyone ???

I am having this same error, my SSH Terminal in Plesk is grayed out currently. I am wondering the correct way to enable it?

Under “Shell access to server with FTP user’s credentials”, what do I select?

/bin/bash
/bin/sh
/sbin/nologin
/bin/tcsh
/bin/csh
/bin/bash (chrooted)
/bin/rbash

I am unsure which one does anyone know?

Thanks

I chose bin/bash and used the permission change commands. I still get ‘nvalid file permissions, could not save configuration.’ What could be going on here?

When I try putting in Mage_All_Latest in the extension I get the following error:

parsePackageName(): invalid package name “Mage_All_Latest “ in “connect.magentocommerce.com/core/Mage_All_Latest “
invalid package name/package file “connect.magentocommerce.com/core/Mage_All_Latest “
Cannot initialize ‘connect.magentocommerce.com/core/Mage_All_Latest ‘, invalid or missing package file
Install Errors
Package “connect.magentocommerce.com/core/Mage_All_Latest “ is not valid
PEAR ERROR: install failed

Anyone know what the problem could be?

Can anybody please help?