Hi all,<br /><br />I'm new to this forum.<br /><br />What Broght me here was a problem with joomla. For some reason when I try to upload a new template into it it kicks me out to an error message that reads:<br /><br /> Upload template - Failed<br />File /home/myaccount/public_html/blog/media/install_44f4b19880587/index.php does not exist!<br /><br />any ideas?<br /><br />I appriciate any help.<br /><br />mike<br /><br /><br /><!--sizeo:1--><span style="font-size:8pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--><!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue"><!--/coloro-->EDIT TCH-Bruce - I removed your account information. Please don't post your account info in the open forums.<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--><!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--><!--content-->
Welcome to the forums freedonchild <img src="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /><br /><br />I don't use joomla so I am not sure what you need to do. The error indicates that the index.php file does not exist in that directory path.<!--content-->
<!--quoteo(post=189074:date=Aug 29 2006, 05:04 PM:name=TCH-Bruce)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TCH-Bruce @ Aug 29 2006, 05:04 PM) <a href="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/index.php?act=findpost&pid=189074"><img src='http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_images/1/post_snapback.gif' alt='*' border='0' /></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Welcome to the forums freedonchild <img src="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /><br /><br />I don't use joomla so I am not sure what you need to do. The error indicates that the index.php file does not exist in that directory path.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br /><br /><br />Aha! while trolling around on the web I was able to find the solution. Just in case anyone else runs into this problem, here it is:<br /><br /><br />It seems that the zip utility on the mac is not very clean. By default it includes ".ds_store" files in the archives. I guess it has something to do with the way that it reads its directories. These extraneous files confuse joomla and render the template invalid. <br /><br />I got around this problem using an app called "Clean Archiver" to create the zipped up templates.<br /><br />Problem solved. I hope that i have helped someone.<br /><br /><br />mike<!--content-->
Thanks Mike for the update.<!--content-->
Welcome to the forums Mike <img src="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /><br />Glad you got it working.<!--content-->
Welcome to the forum, Mike. <img src="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /><!--content-->
Welcome to the forum Mike. Thats an excellant find, well done! For a windows user, it often means a compleletley differenet meaning that the XML loader file is missing.<br /><br />JimE<!--content-->
Welcome to the forums freedonchild <img src="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /><br /><br />I don't use joomla so I am not sure what you need to do. The error indicates that the index.php file does not exist in that directory path.<!--content--><!--quoteo(post=189074:date=Aug 29 2006, 05:04 PM:name=TCH-Bruce)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TCH-Bruce @ Aug 29 2006, 05:04 PM) <a href="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/index.php?act=findpost&pid=189074"><img src='http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_images/1/post_snapback.gif' alt='*' border='0' /></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Welcome to the forums freedonchild <img src="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /><br /><br />I don't use joomla so I am not sure what you need to do. The error indicates that the index.php file does not exist in that directory path.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br /><br /><br />Aha! while trolling around on the web I was able to find the solution. Just in case anyone else runs into this problem, here it is:<br /><br /><br />It seems that the zip utility on the mac is not very clean. By default it includes ".ds_store" files in the archives. I guess it has something to do with the way that it reads its directories. These extraneous files confuse joomla and render the template invalid. <br /><br />I got around this problem using an app called "Clean Archiver" to create the zipped up templates.<br /><br />Problem solved. I hope that i have helped someone.<br /><br /><br />mike<!--content-->Thanks Mike for the update.<!--content-->
Welcome to the forums Mike <img src="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /><br />Glad you got it working.<!--content-->Welcome to the forum, Mike. <img src="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /><!--content-->Welcome to the forum Mike. Thats an excellant find, well done! For a windows user, it often means a compleletley differenet meaning that the XML loader file is missing.<br /><br />JimE<!--content-->