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Installing an extension by having only the files and folders of it (no zip archive installation file)
If I understand right your question, you are after the Discover Feature in the Extensions Manager.
First, make sure you have copied all the required files of an extension to their proper directories -...
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Joomla Beginner Tutorials - How to start with Joomla?
Here are some helpful resources for beginners and Joomla newbies.
(for developers tutorials go: Joomla 3.x extension development tutorial for a beginner developer)
Joomla Docs
Getting started with ...
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Template Installation
This has nothing to do with free vs commercial templates. Modules (the main menu usually is a module too) has to be published to a Module position. The current position for each module can be seen in ...
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Can't click next on new installation
If you cannot install Joomla, then your server is not filling the minimum requirements. For instance, a basic PHP configuration must have certain PHP extensions enabled.
Check your browser console or ...
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Custom message after plugin installation
Yes, it is absolutely possible. You have to create/use an install script.php file in your installable plugin folder which will include tasks on different points of installation, uninstallation, update,...
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How to transfer a joomla content to another server?
As @lodder says, the JPA file generated by Akeeba Backup contains everything you need (files and database, including Joomla itself), so all you need to do is upload the JPA file and kickstart.php to ...
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How to login to joomla.com as a super adminstrator?
In your case,
Joomla.com doesn't give super user permissions and there is limited access to everything. You cannot install any extension or template. You have to use the pre-defined template the one ...
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Is it possible to install template only from quickstart package?
Extract the quickstart archive file on your local machine and find the XML file for the template which should contain a list of the files and folders necessary to install the template on it's own.
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How to secure a new Joomla installation?
Your first line of defense is your hosting service
Lease a dedicated server from a reliable hosting service
Ensure that you activate 2FA on your server and use a 'VERY STRONG' password
Install a ...
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How to transfer a joomla content to another server?
Any data created in Joomla is stored in the database. This means that when taking a backup using Akeeba, you must also take a backup of the database, else, you're only restoring the files, without the ...
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Why can't I delete something even if I have 777 permissions for testing?
The fastest way to check whether your Joomla!-installation has the necessary permission, is the built in function:
Just go to System->System Information->Folder Permissions,
which should look ...
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How do I get the Joomla Framework Files for a production server?
symlink command for Bootstrap assets is failing. Symlinking is known not to work on some Windows versions.
Note: Windows users should note that this function will only work if the system you run ...
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Template Installation
Different templates may use different module position names. This is an extremely common thing.
For example, one of the right hand side positions with Protostar (shipped with Joomla 3.x) is position-...
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How can I install multiple extensions in one shot in a Joomla! 3 site?
Check out Joomla extensions packager at http://www.joomla-extensions-packager.org
The form is limited to 10 extensions, but you can use the library to generate unlimited package by simple php script (...
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Joomla install does not start
The problem was simple (as always: at least in hindsight). A bad server configuration caused no errors or log entries server-side because the actual problem happened client-side: Following the ...
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Install Joomla component without manifest file
On my opinion you should create the package to install that component, it's quite easy to do.
Create a folder named as your component (com_name) with 2 folders and the manifest inside:
admin : all ...
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How to make manual re-installation of Joomla! Core without losing extensions?
It seems your Joomla! instance is corrupted. Since using the Joomla admin does not help with the re-installation, I would suggest Do a complete Joomla! Core manual re-installation / package ...
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Akeeba Backup is ready to backup your site, but there are potential issues Default Output directory in use
You can read about this warning in Akeeba documentation:
Q203 - Default output directory in use
It is more like a friendly warning or you can say a security warning from the developers (not a ...
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Install Script - J3 to J4
Q1 - In J4 I found that this simple function gets what you might want:
/**
* Get the version of the component
* @return version element of manifest
*/
public static function getComponentVersion()
{
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Error 1146 while installing K2 extension
This situation can happen if K2 was installed in the past and not removed correctly or after a failed install attempt.
Have a look with your FTP client for either of the directories below as K2 ...
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Script not running on plugin installation
Just in case anyone doing an editors-xtd plugin stumbles across this note that following the comment from papacho, you need to use plgEditorsxtdMypluginnameInstallerScript with the hyphen removed.
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Archive file is corrupt, truncated or archive parts are missing
Hoping this helps someone; my path to tmp was correctly set within Joomla so to solve this problem I accessed the /tmp folder via FTP client and deleted the existing .zip update file that was in there....
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Why can't I delete something even if I have 777 permissions for testing?
SELinux was my problem. I was able to write to the directories once I set it to permissive mode.
sudo setenforce 0
However I did not want to disable it entirely as set out to correct the issue. ...
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Can't click next on new installation
Another reason for the Installer "Next" button not working is problems with sessions/cookies causing CSRF token checking to fail and redirect back to the first page and the error message to be lost ...
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Can't click next on new installation
I used CentOS 7 with NGINX and Joomla 3.6.2 and had the same problem.
Problem: Permission in the folder "/var/lib/php/session" for group "apache"
[user@localhost ~]$ sudo ls -al /var/lib/php/session
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Template Installation
Each module can be displayed in different menu items. You can set this on:
Extension >> Module Manager >> Edit a Module ("was disapeear") >> on tab "Menu Assignment" look waht are selected:
On all ...
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Is it possible to install template only from quickstart package?
Yes it possible . you just need to unzip the quickstart and locate all the files for the template in the templates folder. also read the xml file for the themplate to find all the files for it.
You ...
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Joomla install database configuration not recognizing MySQL
Here is the solution I've found:
I ran both of these installs (the first was already installed for me, so the second one must have been what is missing)
sudo apt-get install php5-mysql
sudo apt-get ...
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Redirect after completing the package installation
According to this reference for custom component's installer script, couldn't just work with this code?
function install($parent){
// $parent is the class calling this method
$parent-&...
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Redirect after completing the package installation
many developers including me use postflight to finalize installation, such as put my update server into database and update download id and other stuff.
After all, i will try to display a whole "html ...
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