Module manager shows "cannot download"

[Gregor]

Hello,

The module manager shows for several modules (Album, Guestbook) the message "cannot download". On my other site on an other server, I'm able to install modules through the module manager. If I try to change permissions on the first site, it errors with

Couldn't change permissions on some files (Troubleshooting)

Any ideas or suggestions how to solve his? The modules directory is set 777 and I'm using cmsms 1.0.4. On both site, the file creation mask is set to 002.

Thanks for your help,
Gregor

[joeboxer35]

I'm having the same problem on a number of modules like FileManager & FormBuilder.


Currently have v1.0.6 installed with modules set to 777 and file mask to 002.

Any thoughts/ Really looking forward to upgrade some of the modules.

Thanks, Joe

[hcvoorne]

Same problem here, does anyone have a clue????

News module for example is working fine.
Album, Banners, Guestbook, Calendar etc. isn't

You can take a look @ http://www.snails.nl

[RonnyK]

Can you post the module-calling? Check if they are without additional tags, by clicking on the "source" in FCKEditor, or "HTML" in the TinyMCE.

Also you have to give extra width to the div#search, as your button gets pushed down. This can be set to Dutch as well as you site is in Dutch, set default Frontend Language to Dutch in the ""Global Settings"

Breadcrumbs, "You are here" can be changed in the template.

Ronny

[hcvoorne]

Thanks for your reply.
These modules have worked in the past. I didnt change anything but maybe my hosting company did.
But i don't have a clue what's causing the modules  not being displayed.

Also in the modulemanager the installed modules have the text 'cannot download' on the place where normally it would say 'installed' or something.

When i try to install another module it says: Could not create a file (permissions problem?) /site/modules/AjaxMadeSimple/requesthandler.php

Another thing is that these modules aren't available (anymore) in the admin menu.

Could this also be the cause of modules not being displayed?
In the database the tables and contents for by example 'guestbook' do exist.

Strange thing is that the modules which aren't working have apache as owner. And for them I can't change the permissions.

Oh, the code for module-calling guestbook is

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{cms_module module="Guestbook" number="5" shownow="1" smiley="1"}

[calguy1000]

After checking the source.....

there's a variety of conditions that would end in the 'cannot download' message being displayed.  Most of them permissions related.

* If the modules directory isn't writable
* if the module directory already exists, and isn't writable by the httpd server
* If safe mode is enabled AND
    the owner of the script doesn't match the owner of the directory/directories
* If any files in the modules directory aren't writable (this probably should change).

[Gregor]

I noticed that in my situation this condition is the case;

* If safe mode is enabled AND
    the owner of the script doesn't match the owner of the directory/directories

Safe mode is disabled, however the owner does not match. Due to the fact I'm not the 'master' on the server, I'm not able to change it. I noticed that this was the problem because I recently renamed the guestbook-directory, after uninstalling it, copied all new files to the server in the new guestbook-directory, and afterwards he message was gone. I find it a bit risky to rename all 'problem'directories and reinstall the specific modules. This requires database backup and restore of those modules to forcome data lose.

Gregor