I installed Stalker from my Joomla administrator interface, and noted that the "stalker" and "stalker/icons" directories under media are owned by "nobody" and not writable by everyone.

Is there some way to install this differently so I can add icons to the stalker installation?  Since I don't have root on the server I cannot chown the directories or change permissions.

Thanks,

Paul

Hi Paul, 

Do you use the FTP layer in Joomla for installing extensions?  Usually, when you use that, the folders created are given the ftp user details so that you can then upload the images with your normal FTP program.

Does this help any?

Regards
Nick 

Well, I activated FTP with the FTP root /public_html

But then the Stalker component installer broke with "cannot find package" because my tmp directory was a level above the FTP root and inaccessible by the FTP layer.

So I moved the tmp directory to /public_html/tmp which fixed that issue, but now the Stalker component installer breaks horribly with

open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/) is not within the allowed path(s):

Since it's obviously trying to access a directory above the FTP root which breaks things.

Any clues here?  I tried setting my FTP root to / but that doesn't seem to work either.  I haven't used the FTP layer before but it seems incompatible with all extension install packages.

Thanks,

Paul

My apologies for the delay in responding mate.

Just a thought, if you can't change the owner/permissions via FTP you could install the eXtplorer extension, which would let you upload files to the server and change permissions using the same user as the Joomla Installer? 

I'll have a look into how I can change the permissions of the folder during the installation process.

All the best
N