I did a search here and found 1000 other folks having the same old problem with SMF Absolute path problem - I took everyone’s advice and of course it doesn't work.
I've had the same problem as you. We are both noobs that's all. I'm a techie myself and I've been a total user..... der.
Basically all we have to do is read the instructions like the idiots we are (no offence meant) Any way, The install is an INTEGRATION tool (I finally realised after it hot me in the head) Therefore........... we MUST have the standalone SMF forum installed BEFORE we install the component. The configuration screen is asking for the ABSOLUTE path of the already installed SMF forum. I unzipped it to the root of my joomla folder, opened the install.php file in the smf in my browser and up came the SMF install script. I then told it to install into my joomla database, using smf_ as a prefix.
Hey presto it installed.
I then went into joomla and installed the component. The abosulute SMF path was then readable.
Amazing once I sat there (ok for 3 hours, and many beers)
Admins.......
I've seen a thread that mentions this install procedure. Maybe you need to treat us all like our parents, utterly st$p$d . I think the confusion is that some people look at the zip files and think the com_smf.....zip is what you need (well i did) They then spend the next 3 years (it honestly fealt like that) trying to get it to work.
Anyway, off now to solve another problem, 'constant WIRELESS' error
I'm still in dev mode on a WIN2K3 machine running XAMPP, all rights are fine on my machine, so I suppose once I upload to my host, the problems will begin again...... ahhhhhhhh
I did install Joomla and the SMF in their own subdirectories and both work independently of each other yet use the same mysql database; which was defined when Joomla was installed and the same database used when SMF was installed.
In desperation I deleted both and installed Joomla and then in a subdirectory under Joomla SMF and I still get the same problem.
The problem comes in with the confusion of the definition of “Absolute Path”. This is a typical problem with phpNuke and others – everyone has their own definition of “Absolute Path” apparently.
Anyway I’m still stuck at the same place.
Then other php oriented programs get into “Relative Path” which makes “Absolute Path” look like child’s play.
When I try the "click to patch" to patch the SMF Indes.php I get the following error:
Failed: /index.php file or the parent path is not writeable!
I've went in, by hand, and changed EVERY file in joomla/smf to 777 and the same error occurs. Hence my questioning of .htaccess to allow for something else.
file perms are only accesible if the directory perms are correct. Note that in linux directory perms supercede any file perms. What are the perms of the directory?
My browser's screen focuses on the "SMF Absolute Path:" and I never saw the Save Icon at the top of the page! This is what caused my problems.
The line "Forum URL" had the red warning "Save" but I ignored it since there was no "save" button I could see.
Same with the SMF Absolute Path - I made changes and never saw the "Save" icon at the top of the page out of sight.
When I supplied the correct Absolute Path and clicked the "Save" icon all worked fine.
Sorry for the time I took and perhaps this problem has occurred with many others - its our first time using Joomla and not used to the "Save" icon at the top of the page out of sight.
Case closed, thanks for the help.
« Last Edit: February 04, 2006, 02:58:44 PM by Perry »
As a policy, we should edit these topic to add "FIXED:" or "SOLVED:" to the topic so that others with the problem can more easily find them or move them to a 'SOLUTIONS FOUND' sub forum?
<?php header("Content-type: text/plain"); echo "My server runs: ".PHP_OS . ', PHP ' . PHP_VERSION ."\n"; echo "The absolute path to this file is: ".dirname(__FILE__) . "\n";; echo "The relative path to this file is: http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']); ?>
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. I think the confusion is that some people look at the zip files and think the com_smf.....zip is what you need (well i did) They then spend the next 3 years (it honestly fealt like that) trying to get it to work.
