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

I was so excited…I had just installed joomla 1.5.12 update on my website (hosted by GoDaddy).  I decided to try installing an extension and got

  • JFolder::create: Could not create directory
  • Warning! Failed to move file.

I spent time on google and saw comments from “make sure the /tmp and /logs dir have 777 permissions” to “get the absolut path for the tmp and logs dir and edit the configuration.php file.”  Nothing worked. (NOTE: The site is hosted on one of GoDaddy’s IIS7 plans…so 777 permissions don’t apply.)

I finally found a post that said to put a . infront of the /tmp…so I changed my settings to point to ./tmp and ./var/logs and it worked!

Comments

10 responses to “JFolder::create: Could not create directory Warning! Failed to move file.”

  1. Panagiotis Avatar
    Panagiotis

    My friend thanks very much, i spend many ours searching for a solution for this problem and whatever i was doing, it was not working. When i saw your post here, i tried to do it but it didn’t work. So i put double full stop: ../tmp ../logs and now works!!!! Thanks again for giving me the inspiration!!!

  2. den Avatar
    den

    thanks so much!

  3. GYSFUGSSHOOSY Avatar

    Other variant is possible also

  4. ripple Avatar
    ripple

    thanks a lot

  5. Claudiu Avatar
    Claudiu

    I don’t believe it, after trying almost everything, this solution with double full stop worked.
    Thank you very much!

  6. Steve Avatar

    My friend thanks very much, i spend many ours searching for a solution for this problem and whatever i was doing, it was not working. When i saw your post here, i tried to do it but it didn’t work. So i put double full stop: ../tmp ../logs and now works!!!! Thanks again for giving me the inspiration!!!

  7. Jeff Avatar

    Thanks very much. Replacing the paths with the ../logs and ../tmp works great.

  8.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    thks

  9. Jenny Avatar
    Jenny

    I think I love you!! Thank you! 😀

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    Anonymous

    Genius….thank you very much. Spent ages on this, but now working.