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Hi, every time I try to install any plugin i get the same error message

* JFolder::create: Infinite loop detected
* Warning! - Failed to move file

The directory permission for all directories are set to writable, if you are wondering...

Do you guys have any idea how I can fix this?


Thanx

Ok, for anyone else who stumbles on this thread, the problem is an incorrectly set tmp file.

http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=470&t=266930

Make sure the path to your 'log' and 'tmp' folders are set correctly in the global configuration.

Problem solved, and I think I know why this problem is so common... To find the path to my tmp directory, in the backend I clicked help -> system info -> php info, then i search the page for the letters "tmp".

I locate the following line:

open_basedir /var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs:/tmp

I then went to my global configuration, clicked on the server tab and entered the following line:

"/var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs:/tmp"

The error continued and i noticed when looking at the path which came from the php info file that it included a ":" right before "/tmp". I confirmed that path does not exist on my server but "/var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs/tmp" does so i removed the ":", saved it, and tried to install a component again and it worked.

My point is, the path that you get out of the php info file may be slightly off so simply use your ftp client to browse through your sites directories to confirm that every character in that path is legitimate.

im not sure if this helps, but thats why I was getting that error.

Problem solved, and I think I know why this problem is so common... To find the path to my tmp directory, in the backend I clicked help -> system info -> php info, then i search the page for the letters "tmp".

I locate the following line:

open_basedir /var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs:/tmp

I then went to my global configuration, clicked on the server tab and entered the following line:

"/var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs:/tmp"

The error continued and i noticed when looking at the path which came from the php info file that it included a ":" right before "/tmp". I confirmed that path does not exist on my server but "/var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs/tmp" does so i removed the ":", saved it, and tried to install a component again and it worked.

My point is, the path that you get out of the php info file may be slightly off so simply use your ftp client to browse through your sites directories to confirm that every character in that path is legitimate.

im not sure if this helps, but thats why I was getting that error.

what you said is alright

I have the same problem and now it solved because of your post

set the tmp directory right and the message gone away

Thank you

Azazriel wrote:Ok, for anyone else who stumbles on this thread, the problem is an incorrectly set tmp file.

http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=470&t=266930

Make sure the path to your 'log' and 'tmp' folders are set correctly in the global configuration.

Problem solved! Thanks Azazriel.

This fixed my problem too! Thanks a Million!

Where do you change this "open_basedir /var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs:/tmp" at? Which file is that under?

Log in to the Administrator back end. In the Control Panel click on Global Configuration. Once you are in the Global Configuration area, click on Server. Here you will change the path to the Temp_folder under Server Settings. Hope this helps.

I knew where that was. I was looking for the Open Basedir location. Doesn't matter. Fixed the issue.

prestonascott wrote: The error continued and i noticed when looking at the path which came from the php info file that it included a ":" right before "/tmp". I confirmed that path does not exist on my server but "/var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs/tmp" does so i removed the ":", saved it, and tried to install a component again and it worked.

Sounds promising.
But where do I find that 'php info file'?
Is that its name?
In which directory can I find it?

Hi Lads, now this is the 3rd evening what I have been struggling with my joomla extension errors.

HERE IS MY ENVIRONMENT:
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PHP Built on: Linux albatros 2.6.18-6-vserver-686 #1 SMP Sat Dec 27 11:44:04 UTC 2008 i686
Database Version: 5.0.32-Debian_7etch10-log
Database Collation: utf8_general_ci
PHP Version: 5.2.0-8+etch13
Web Server: Apache
Web Server to PHP interface: apache2handler
Joomla! Version: Joomla! 1.5.15 Stable [ Wojmamni Ama Mamni ] 05-November-2009 04:00 GMT
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; sk; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3
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Firstly I recommend to read these threads to get a better feel with this issue:
http://docs.joomla.org/Why_can%27t_you_ ... ensions%3F
http://docs.joomla.org/How_to_solve_Ins ... on_Manager
http://www.jfoobar.org/blog/258-quickgu ... layer.html

Firstly I had to enable my FTP Settings to:
-------------------------------------------
var $ftp_enable = '1';
var $ftp_host = 'YOURHOST.com';
var $ftp_port = '21';
var $ftp_user = 'USERNAME';
var $ftp_pass = 'PASSWORD';
var $ftp_root = '/web/';
-------------------------------------------
(take it easy with configuration.php file, I did all from File-Global Configuration, it's more confy)
Now, make sure you hit the right var $ftp_root: /www, or /web, or /anything else (check your website's structure)
If you dont catch the right var $ftp_root, you're gonna get an error, something about cannot saving the configuration file.

As soon as I have hit the right var $ftp_root, the global configuration has successfully saved and I moved on to the next step.
I have modified permissions of my entire website to '777' (temporarily for testing purposes) using my FILEZILLA software.


IF
var $ftp_enable = '1'; <---- OK
var $ftp_host = 'YOURHOST.COM'; <---- OK
var $ftp_port = '21'; <---- OK
var $ftp_user = 'USERNAME'; <---- OK
var $ftp_pass = 'PASSWORD'; <---- OK
var $ftp_root = '/vap/www/web129/web/'; <- WRONG (one subfolder was missing)

I GOT THIS ERROR:
* JFTP::store: Bad response
* Warning! Failed to move file.
-----------------------------------------------------------

IF
var $ftp_enable = '1'; <---- OK
var $ftp_host = 'YOURHOST.COM'; <---- OK
var $ftp_port = '21'; <---- OK
var $ftp_user = 'USERNAME'; <---- OK
var $ftp_pass = 'PASSWORD'; <---- OK
var $ftp_root = '/vap/'; <- MADE IT A SHORT VERSION LOOKED THE SAME LIKE WRONG 'var $ftp_root'

I GOT THIS ERROR: JFolder::create: Infinite loop detected
-----------------------------------------------------------

FINALLY I CAUGHT THE RIGHT var '$ftp_root', when I have created a path.php and used in from this guide:
http://docs.joomla.org/How_to_solve_Ins ... on_Manager


This means that there are some server settings which are wrong. You have to go to your global configuration and click on server. The first field is Path to Temp-folder and that's most likely the local path of you local install. You have to give in your live server path.

There are multiple ways to find that path. The easy one is to create a path.php file that has the following code in it:

<?php
echo getcwd();
?>

Go to example.com/path.php and this will give you the right directory. Put /tmp behind it, place it in Path to Temp-folder and your done.
The path.php showed me the right path, in my case /vap/www/web129/web/tmp, which I have just put into var '$ftp_root' and a wonder happened. Thx god I've guit smoking otherwise I
would have been smoking my ar.e right now!


IF

var $ftp_enable = '1'; <---- OK
var $ftp_host = 'YOURHOST.COM'; <---- OK
var $ftp_port = '21'; <---- OK
var $ftp_user = 'USERNAME'; <---- OK
var $ftp_pass = 'PASSWORD'; <---- OK
var $ftp_root = '/vap/www/web129/web/tmp' <---- ok


RESOURCES:
http://docs.joomla.org/Why_can%27t_you_ ... ensions%3F
http://docs.joomla.org/How_to_solve_Ins ... on_Manager
http://www.jfoobar.org/blog/258-quickgu ... layer.html
AND ALL JOOMLA FORUMS.

I face this problem. I tryed all of the way, but still can't install module/com.

Linux hosting no problem (/home/gnet2u/public_html/mysite.com/logs)

Windos hosting I try to locate (/var/www/vhosts/myste.com/httpdocs:/logs/)

I think windows hosting location is problem.


Help-->System Info--> Director Permision

1. administrator/backups/ Writable
2. administrator/components/ Writable
3. administrator/language/ Unwritable
4. administrator/language/en-GB/ Unwritable
5. administrator/modules/ Unwritable
6. administrator/templates/ Unwritable
7 components/ Writable
8. images/ Unwritable
9. images/banners/ Unwritable
10. images/stories/ Unwritable
11. language/ Unwritable
12. language/en-GB/ Unwritable
13. language/pdf_fonts/ Unwritable
14. media/ Unwritable
15. modules/ Writable
16. plugins/ Writable
17. plugins/content/ Writable
18. plugins/editors/ Writable
19. plugins/editors-xtd/ Unwritable
20. plugins/search/ Unwritable
21. plugins/system/ Unwritable
22. plugins/user/ Unwritable
23. plugins/xmlrpc/ Unwritable
24. templates/ Unwritable
25. Cache Directory /var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs/cache/ Unwritable
26. Cache Directory /var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs/administrator/cache/ Writable
27. Log Directory ($log_path) /var/www/vhosts/mysie.com/httpdocs:/logs/ Unwritable
28. Temp Directory ($tmp_path) /var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs:/tmp/ Unwritable


Please advice me.

I'm also coming up against this problem, but can't get to the bottom of it. I'm pretty sure I have the right tmp and logs paths set, but there seems to be an issue with file permissions. If I go into Help/System Info/Directory Permissions, I get this list:

administrator/backups/ Unwritable
administrator/components/ Unwritable
administrator/language/ Unwritable
administrator/language/de-DE/ Unwritable
administrator/language/en-GB/ Unwritable
administrator/language/nl-NL/ Unwritable
administrator/modules/ Unwritable
administrator/templates/ Unwritable
components/ Unwritable
images/ Unwritable
images/banners/ Unwritable
images/stories/ Unwritable
language/ Unwritable
language/en-GB/ Unwritable
language/pdf_fonts/ Unwritable
media/ Unwritable
modules/ Unwritable
plugins/ Unwritable
plugins/content/ Unwritable
plugins/editors/ Unwritable
plugins/editors-xtd/ Unwritable
plugins/search/ Unwritable
plugins/system/ Unwritable
plugins/user/ Unwritable
plugins/xmlrpc/ Unwritable
templates/ Unwritable
Cache Directory /usr/local/pem/vhosts/103103/webspace/httpdocs/cache/ Unwritable
Cache Directory /usr/local/pem/vhosts/103103/webspace/httpdocs/administrator/cache/ Unwritable
Log Directory ($log_path) /webspace/httpdocs/logs// Unwritable
Temp Directory ($tmp_path) /webspace/httpdocs/tmp// Unwritable

I used FileZilla to check the permissions on tmp and logs and found that they are set to 755. But when I try to change them to 777, FileZilla confirms the change, but it doesn't actually happen and they stay set at 755.

I'm assuming that this is the cause of the "JFolder::create: Infinite loop detected" error. Am I right, and if so, how can I change the permissions?

Anybody able to help me on this one? Seems to be a topic that gets an awful lot of reads.

Finally tracked down the problem to the hosting company. It seems that they recently moved a lot of sites to new servers. In doing so, it seems that they screwed up the directory ownership settings. Once I convinced them to check this out, they were able to rectify the fault in seconds.

Azazriel wrote:Ok, for anyone else who stumbles on this thread, the problem is an incorrectly set tmp file.

http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=470&t=266930

Make sure the path to your 'log' and 'tmp' folders are set correctly in the global configuration.

Thank you. I had solved the problem as well. I changed my Global Configuration Settings:
Path to Local Folder - log
Path to Temp Folder - tmp

I couldn't get anything to work until I stumbled upon a post on a cakePHP site suggesting changing the variable via your .htaccess file to something like:

php_value include_path "./insert/path/to/your/website:/tmp"

That worked for me.

-Brent

Thanks, prestonascott!

Your post helped me to solve this problem even it was a post more than 2 years ago.
I searched in Google and I found your post.

In order to thank you I registered this forum...

Well Done, hope you read this post, Merry X'mas!

For my site www.gecwyd.ac.in, Tmp setting is /www/hosted_sites/gecwyd.ac.in/www/tmp. I changed last www to httpdocs n tried. Still i am getting the same error. Can someone help me in this regard.

SREEJITH V P

I had this same error and the correct fix for me was a code change to tar.php documented here...

http://sammoffatt.com.au/os/forum/2-upd ... p-detected

Note that the current version puts tar.php in a different location so the path to the file will be different, however the change to the "Make sure the destination folder exists" condition is the same.

Problem solved thanks to your post!

Thank you!

hi i was getting the same problem,

please check the following link as well

http://docs.joomla.org/Infinite_loop_de ... Joomla_1.7

if your problem are not solved by above solution

In Joomla after installing an extension (component, template, plugin, etc) the following error may appear:
* JFolder::create: Infinite loop detected
* Warning! Failed to move file.
The cause of this error is usually a bad path to the Joomla tmp folder and can be fixed within the Joomla configuration.php file by modifying the $tmp_path variable. For sites hosted on Linux servers the following line will usually fix the problem (change domain-name.com to your site’s domain name):
var $tmp_path = '/var/www/vhosts/domain-name.com/httpdocs/tmp';
The path above may need to be modified if your web server hosts multiple sites per IP address and if the site is hosted on a sub domain.
Tip: The website’s media manager can help identify the correct path. Navigate to Site → Media Managerfrom the Joomla admin menu, and copy the path under the “Files” text/legend and, replace the last word (images) to tmp.
Once the Joomla website’s tmp path has been changed, the log path ($log_path) will also need to be changed.
taken from another website, but it works

I copied my site from one website to another and then had this problem :JFolder::create: Infinite loop detected when trying to install a module

Even though I changed the configuration.php files to point to the correct temp directory it still didnt work.

I also checked the permissions and they were correct and it still didn't work.

Finally in Global Configuration -> Server -> Path to Temp Folder in Joomla, I deleted the entry and clicked saved . I then put the path to the tmp folder in again, saved it and it worked!

Hi guys,
I am not a IT guy, but in this case I luckely find a solution. I use a free hosting place and in global configuration I add those!
SOLVED:
/home/MY_username in hosting place/domains/my_domain.fi/public_html/tmp
/home/MY_username in hosting place/domains/my_domain.fi/public_html/logs

I hope it will help somebody!

Hi have the same problem but the solution did not work in my case - unless I am REALLY missing something

Can anyone help me out? This is the outline of the problem:

Action: Trying to install - anything
Error: JFolder::create: Infinite loop detected / Warning: Failed to move file!

The weird: Changing the permissions of tmp and logs does absolutely NOTHING - when checking the properties of the folders they are set on 777 (that's as writable as it gets) BUT it shows up as unwritable on the Joomla system check

What are we missing and how can this be fixed - login details available on request


PLEASE HELP

I've had the same problem with JFolder::create: Infinite loop detected and I've fixed like this:

Go to Site>System Information>Directory Permissions and find Log directory. Copy the path (mine was something like this: /home/*****/public_html/****/logs). Then go to Site>Global Configuration>Server an paste the copied path to Path to Temp Folder. Change logs with tmp, save and then go to your hosting cpanel. Use File Manager under Files section. In left, click on public_html, then clik on the subfolder in which the site (mine was a subdomain) is installed or look in the right side and see the folder structure. Right click on tmp folder and change permission to 777. Then try to reinstall the plugin, module, language pack or whatever you wanted to before this, when you got the error.

Note: For me, this worked.

Thanks prestonascott. You've save my day. Ran into the same error and the method posted by prestonascott happen to have solved for my problems too. Thanks a million!

Azazriel wrote:...Make sure the path to your 'log' and 'tmp' folders are set correctly in the global configuration.

That was really very beautiful!