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The error messages on your page indicate that you have a partial installation. Can you try downloading the installation ZIP file and installing it on your site, without uninstalling your existing copy of Admin Tools? If you get any error during the installation, you will have to go through the installation troubleshooting instructions.

Ah, stupid me, should have told you that you need to try re-installing **twice** in a row. There's a bug in Joomla! 1.5's extensions installer, the same one which prevents upgrading from Core to Professional releases. The bug causes the files in directories not present in the old release (like the new "fof" directory) to not be copied along when updating. Doing the manual installation twice seems to work. I have no idea why, it just works (and makes it impossible for me to debug the issue). This seems to have been solved since Joomla! 1.6.3, or at least no user with a Joomla! 1.6/1.7 site reported it so far.

The "unable to copy file" message is completely irrelevant as it seems. It is caused by a missing language file and you can ignore it if it's all you get.

People who had the same problem with you were able to resolve it either by reinstalling twice in a row, or by uninstalling and installing again. Most people seem to not have a problem updating, judging by the positive feedback.

If despite following all those instructions you still have a problem, please do give me some information:
- Exact Joomla! version
- Are you using a Super Administrator, Administrator or Manager account?
- Have you changed the ACL settings, or are you uisng the defaults?
- If you get a 500 error, below it it should have some extra information. I really want that.

Please remember that without this information I can not replicate this issue. If I can not replicate it, I can't fix it. If you want to see this fixed, give me the information I need to fix it. That's the whole point of having an alpha (public preview) release. Thank you in advance!

Hello guys,

Thank you for your excellent feedback! It helped me track down the problems to two issues:
1. The installer was trying to copy the CLI (command line) script which can be used to automate the file scanning when in Joomla! 1.5. However, Joomla! 1.5 doesn't have the "cli" directory or the necessary platform files to support it. This caused the "Could not copy the specified file" error message. Unfortunately, this error is thrown by Joomla!'s JFile::copy() itself and is ultra-cryptic, misleading me to the real cause of it. I had to go through the file list one item at a time to see what was causing that. Found and solved.
2. There was a missing line from the view file of the WAF view which caused the 500 message. Funny enough, this would only happen on Joomla! 1.5. Joomla! 1.7 and 2.5 did not suffer from this issue. It seems that when I was doing the Joomla! 1.5 testing I never visited the WAF control panel, only accessed the individual sub-pages directly, missing this issue. Found and fixed.

All of the above fixes, plus a couple of minor ones (garbage files being left behind) are solved in the latest dev release (svn667 at the time of this writing). You can simply download it and install it on top of 2.1.14 or 2.2.a1 to fix those issues.

In case you can not access your site's administrator section, you can always rename plugins/system/admintools.php (Joomla! 1.5) or plugins/system/admintools/admintools.php (Joomla! 1.7, 2.5) to admintools.php.bak. Then you should be able to access your site's back-end and install the developer's release.

If you get installation errors, please take a look at the installation troubleshooting instructions. If this doesn't help, please start a new thread stating which developer's release you are trying to install and that you've already tried the installation troubleshooting instructions so that I can help you more efficiently.

Thank you in advance for your feedback!

Perfect!

Yes, that missing language file is a typo in the installation package. I didn't get it in this round of fixes because I don't have the German language pack installed (it's the prerequisite to get this error). I will fix that in the next dev release.

Thank you for your feedback!!

On another note, if you have Akeeba Subscriptions 2.0.b2 or earlier installed, you MUST update it to 2.0.RC1 BEFORE installing Admin Tools 2.2.a1 or later, otherwise Admin Tools WILL CRASH.