Comments on: Fix Session Save Path Red Unwritable When Installing Joomla!

By: XTC

XTC — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:33:32 +0000

Cannot login to joomla admin, but website works fine.
Sorry did not work, adding any of these ideas mentioned here kills my website completely – everything becomes 500 internal server error…

By: Agung Mojosari

Agung Mojosari — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:45:18 +0000

Thanks for sharing… that’s very helpfull

By: luc4net

luc4net — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:11:10 +0000

‘Note: A lot has been saying about writable folder. In some cases, depending on owner and group, you may have to set the permissions to 777 (full read, write and execute) in order for Apache to be able to write into the directory.’

following this advice, in 000webhost.com this was all I had to do in order to be able to upload new templates to Joomla:

1-login to your cpanel
2-click on ‘file manager’
3- once inside file manager open the folder ‘public_html’.
4-tick the boxes of whatever folder(s) you want to make writable, like ‘templates’, ‘media’, ‘images’ and so on.
4-Click on ‘Chmod’ (top right of this page) to be taken to the page in which you can change permissions called ‘Chmod directories and files’.
5-TICK ALL THE BOXES until you get a Chmod value of 777
6-Also tick ‘Chmod also the subdirectories within this directory’ and ‘Chmod also the files within this directory’
7-Save it and you should be done.
8-refresh your Joomla admin interface and all the files that you have changed permissions for should be writable now.

THANKS 4 UR HELP

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:05:19 +0000

Thanks a lot for all the info provided here.

I still cannot manage to solve the problem though (trying to use Expose 4)

so far:
- I can’t access PHP.INI cuz its a web server
- I can’t change .htaccess without creating a 500 error
- I dont understand ur “adding php.ini” to every subfolder so I skipped it…
- I can’t find a globals.php within my Joomla! (1.5) folder.

Please help!

By: marjan

marjan — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:28:26 +0000

THAT WAS VERY HELPFUL, THANK YOU

By: Germinal

Germinal — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:09:48 +0000

Realy helpfull buddy.
thaks a lot.

By: Pete

Pete — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:31:13 +0000

Thank you

Worked like a charm

By: Phoenix

Phoenix — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:34:06 +0000

excellent post. helped a lot as the joomla docs/wiki or forum did not have enough info this major issue. Joomla creators can learn a lot from u.

Thanks

By: pilip

pilip — Thu, 15 May 2008 05:18:44 +0000

muchos gracias. this helped a lot.

By: numericalexample.com

numericalexample.com — Sun, 11 May 2008 09:40:51 +0000

It is indeed cleaner to have the session directory being green in Joomla instead of red (unwritable).

The strange thing is that my site still works fine without the session directory being writable.

By: Tutorial: Caminho de sess

Tutorial: Caminho de sess — Mon, 05 May 2008 11:10:10 +0000

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By: Zeon

Zeon — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:33:16 +0000

Adding the path info to configuration.php worked out.
I wanted to point out that in order to find the host’s local route to my account I used the following:

By: reza

reza — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:15:47 +0000

dear admin
special thanks for this tutorial.
see u

By: Lloyd Erasmus

Lloyd Erasmus — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:29:47 +0000

Had this problem for 4 days until i came across this article… Thanx a million, this has really helped me.

By: Patsy Caldwell

Patsy Caldwell — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:39:13 +0000

This article was a lifesaver! I have been trying to figure this out for hours.I couldn’t get my Joomla Stand Alone Server to work but your notes worked! Thanks a bunch!

By: Victor Noe

Victor Noe — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:35:20 +0000

Wich of all this php.ini I need to edit the lines ?

/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/etc/phpmyadmin/php.ini
/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/etc/php.ini
/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/etc/horde/php.ini
/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/etc/phppgadmin/php.ini
/usr/local/lib/php.ini
/usr/lib/php.ini