Joomla 1.7 installation problem

[mohamedkalith85]

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Joomla1.7 I had create a new template ....but i install error msg will occured..These is my error msg ..

Failed loading XML file
/home/osmodels/public_html/subdomains/test/tmp/install_4ec0f91a3482e/OSM_kalith/templateDetails.xml
XML: Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding ! Bytes: 0xA9 0x20 0x32 0x30
JInstaller: :Install: Cannot find Joomla XML setup file



anybody know the solution ......

[mbrsolution]

Your xml file is not properly declared that is why you see that error. Make sure you include on the top of the xml file the following

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

Kind regards

[mbrsolution]

Have a look at this link http://docs.joomla.org/Tutorial:Creatin ... !_template

[mohamedkalith85]

still not working .....

[mbrsolution]

Are you sure you pointing to the correct path in your xml file?

[Blue Man]

I really think its safest to use either absolute or root relative paths. That way a lot of such errors could easily be avoided.

[Blue Man]

Sorry.. I dont think its the paths, i had the same issue on a site that didnt use Joomla..

The problem seems to be that your file isnt proper UTF-8, as indicated by the error message. You should be able to fix this by opening the file in a editor like notepad++, and then converting and saving the file as UTF-8.

I dont remember the exact steps to do it, and i remember having loads of problems with some .php files that refused to convert for some reason. But such data can really create problems when working with XML, so its important always to make sure your server is using the correct character encoding.

It may simply be that your xml file aint UTF-8, and you need to deliver it using iso-8859-1 or something like that..

[Webdongle]

You need to open it in a plain text editor and then save it.

[Blue Man]

Maybe its possible to just deliver the file using the proper encoding? Because sometimes i just dont seem to get how to convert these files.

Simply opening the file in a text-editor and saving it is not enough i think, at least not on windows. Have no idea on other systems..

I got this problem with a file once, and the only thing which seems to solve it, is to re-write the entire file. Maybe im just doing it wrong though.

Anyway, better get back to installing Joomla, ill be back later to check this theed.

[Webdongle]

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I got this problem with a file once, and the only thing which seems to solve it, is to re-write the entire file. Maybe im just doing it wrong though.
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Opening it up in notepad then saving should 're-write the entire file' ?

But yes it was saved in the wrong format before.

[Blue Man]

Opening it up in notepad then saving should 're-write the entire file' ?

But yes it was saved in the wrong format before.

Yes, but i dont think that will replace/convert all the characters to the character set that the file is re-saved in.

[mbrsolution]

Why don't you compare your xml file with another xml file of a working template?

[Webdongle]

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Yes, but i dont think that will replace/convert all the characters to the character set that the file is re-saved in.

Perhaps not, but the char set of the saved file should be in the format it is saved in not the format that was there before ? But yes deleting the original before saving again may well help ?

But we both appear to agree that the format of the file is incorrect.

[Simmoniz]

I had the same problem. In my case the problem was the special characters. For example, I had a "menu" tag that looked like this :

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<menu>Carcatères spéciaux</menu>

This is not a valid xml tag. I had to wrap it's content with a CDATA and encode every special characters to make it work.

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<menu><![CDATA[Caract&egrave;res spé&eacute;ciaux]]></menu>

That worked for me

Hope that helps