Can't Install Joomla Modules (1.5)

[omidkia]

Hi there,
When I got to Install Modules, Browse, then Upload & Install with the .zip selected I get this error.

JFTP::mkdir: Bad response
JFTP::mkdir: Bad response
Unable to create destination


PowWeb was not helpful with the customer support. They suggested that Joomla had an error in the scripting (it's 1.5.1 Stable).

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I went into Joomla site settings and it can login to the ftp (according to the Verify FTP Settings button), but obviously something is going wrong.

Please help!

Thanks in advance.

[Croc Hunter]

Please only post your question once.

[thedaego]

I'm having the same problem. Anyone know of a solution to this?

[entrecon]

I had a problem installing modules with PHP 5. I switched back to PHP 4 and was able to do the install. In doing some research on the issue I found that there is a difference with the way that PHP 4 and 5 handle directory paths. I don't know if that was the entire issue, but just changing the PHP version allowed me to install so i did not research further.

[thedaego]

I found a solution to the problem I was having. Tere are 2 ways to go about it.
1.) during installation, when configuring jFTP, select the 'no' radial button and in advanced make sure you set your root path to the fully qualified path of your htdocs directory. (this can be found in your ops control panel under HTTP and is listed as 'Document Root'

2.) Edit your configuration.php file located in your joomla directory and modify the $ftp_root variable with your the document root listed in the ops control panel. Also change the $ftp_enable variable from '1' to '0'.