Installization using manual method

Ah what if you don't have access to the path your php.ini resides in?
mine is usr/local/lib/php.ini this is on a hosted server so not open to the average user.

Support seems to be less than helpful and probably best described as non-responsive.

So I moved onto the install from a directory. of course I get the error "please enter a package directory" Not exactly real helpful. Is this a bad path, bad permissions, a missing file, or some other cranky reason? Ahhhh! very painful!

Hello, we alredy set the upload parametrer, and we still have this trouble... any idea¿¿ please

Hello, we alredy set the upload parametrer, and we still have this trouble... any idea¿¿ please


JInstaller::install: SQL Error. DB function failed with error number 2006
MySQL server has gone away SQL=CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `jos_comprofiler` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL default '0', `user_id` int(11) NOT NULL default '0', `firstname` VARCHAR( 100 ), `middlename` VARCHAR( 100 ) , `lastname` VARCHAR( 100 ), `hits` int(11) NOT NULL default '0', `avatar` varchar(255) default NULL, `avatarapproved` tinyint(4) default '1', `approved` tinyint(4) NOT NULL default '1', `confirmed` tinyint(4) NOT NULL default '1', `lastupdatedate` datetime NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00', `banned` tinyint(4) NOT NULL default '0', `banneddate` datetime default NULL, `bannedby` int(11) default NULL, `bannedreason` mediumtext, `acceptedterms` tinyint(1) NOT NULL default '0', PRIMARY KEY (`id`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM;
SQL =

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `jos_comprofiler` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
`user_id` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
`firstname` VARCHAR( 100 ),
`middlename` VARCHAR( 100 ) ,
`lastname` VARCHAR( 100 ),
`hits` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
`avatar` varchar(255) default NULL,
`avatarapproved` tinyint(4) default '1',
`approved` tinyint(4) NOT NULL default '1',
`confirmed` tinyint(4) NOT NULL default '1',
`lastupdatedate` datetime NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
`banned` tinyint(4) NOT NULL default '0',
`banneddate` datetime default NULL,
`bannedby` int(11) default NULL,
`bannedreason` mediumtext,
`acceptedterms` tinyint(1) NOT NULL default '0',
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM;

Since I have only done this with filezilla "ftp client" I have no idea if others will work in the same manner I am going to describe.

Upload the compressed com_comprofiler.zip to the tmp directory of your joomla install.

after it uploads a while you will get an time out message on most free shared host servers, when this happens an window pops up wanting to know how you wish to proceed, click on resume then OK.

Also you may get a message that it cannot proceed, just tell it to down load the file again, answering the how to proceed question again with the resume response.

Repeat this until the the file is fully uploaded.

Doing it this way avoids the missing files you get sometimes by uploading each file in the compressed file individually.

Curtis