Cannot install on Microsoft-IIS?

[Woof]

Trying to install PhocaGallery 1.6.4 on a non-ofr-profit website (Joomla 1.5.1) and facing a problem with install. Everything else is working fine with the website (Ja_Purity template) .

PHP Built on: Windows NT WS031 5.2 build 3790
Database Version: 5.0.19-log
Database Collation: utf8_general_ci
PHP Version: 5.2.5
Web Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
Web Server to PHP interface: isapi
Joomla! Version: Joomla! 1.5.1 Production/Stable [ Seenu ] 8-February-2008 22:00 GMT

Any ways I tried to install (Upload Package File, Install from Directory,Install from URL) I get the same error:

Unable to find install package with the

* JFolder::create: Could not create directory
* Warning! - Failed to move file

Now, I have a "test" website where everything is running great
PHP Built on: Linux 2.6.9-55.0.9.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Sep 27 18:28:00 EDT 2007 x86_64
Database Version: 4.1.22-standard
Database Collation: utf8_general_ci
PHP Version: 5.2.3
Web Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) PHP/5.2.3 mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635.SR1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.7a
Web Server to PHP interface: apache
Joomla! Version: Joomla! 1.5.1 Production/Stable [ Seenu ] 8-February-2008 22:00 GMT

So, could it be that PhocaGallery does not work on Microsoft-IIS ?
This is a GREAT component for Joomla! Hope you'll add "sections" in a future release!
Thanks for your reply!

[Jan]

Hi, we cannot speak about Phoca Gallery, because your server did not allow install it on your server... The JFolder::create error come from Installation procedure in Joomla!. Phoca Gallery uses standard Joomla! installation XML to install it on Joomla!. It seems like Joomla! does not have permissions to create a folder on your system (components/com_phocagallery, administrator/components/com_phocagallery... Try to change permissions for your joomla directory.


Phoca Gallery works on Microsoft-IIS (like other php scripts)

Jan

[Woof]

Thank you Jan for your fast reply. I will contact the hosting company later (long week-end here... Happy Easter!) and see if they can help. From my limited knowledge, I think permissions on Microsoft-IIS are not handled the same way as with Linux/Apache where you can easily CHMOD the folders/file. I think it might have something to do with ownership as well. If I am not wrong, Component/modules and plugin have first to pass via the tmp folder and then install... so will also check if by changing/modifying the path to the temp folder will help. I will certainly report back when I do have an answer. This might help others.

Thank you again for a GREAT tool for Joomla!
Woof

[Woof]

Update: I modified the tmp file path in Joomla Configuration, and the install went OK and so did the install for the Phoca plugin! I had to figure out the exact path on the server... which was not easy to find out.

Maybe this error/solution might help other with similar problem.

Because I did not do the installation of Joomla (the hosting company did) they probably set the path wrong

Thank you again Jan for looking into this. I will now try uploading images and use the Gallery, hopefully with any problem.
Woof

[Jan]

Ok