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Nicholas,

I finally fixed my problem -

Nicholas,

Sorry - First missive seem to have been sent by mistake. I have fixed the problem with the introduction of the ssl module. See my internal note - please pass along. No sure why php5-openssl is not automatically installed with LAMP

Thanks for your help

Richard

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I have now (5 hour work, I guess, plus a subscription to Akeeba) got the automatic upgrade of Akeeba tools and Akeeba backup working. The Server send me an Email when it need upgrading.

At one level this is unimportant, but it make sense to try to understand why it failed:

This required the php.ini file

in /etc/php5/apache2

(there is another one in /etc/php5/cli which (unfortunately) answers to php -i )

to have both the Upload limit and file size limits

php_value upload_max_filesize 10M
php_value post_max_size 10M

set to 10M

for the temporary director to be set, using a relative path

i.e

/tmp

not /srv/www/htdocs/tmp

and the php5-openssl

module to be loaded

Snippet from php.ini below

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; http://php.net/cgi.rfc2616-headers
;cgi.rfc2616_headers = 0

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; File Uploads ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

; Whether to allow HTTP file uploads.
; http://php.net/file-uploads
file_uploads = On

; Temporary directory for HTTP uploaded files (will use system default if not
; specified).
upload_tmp_dir = /tmp
;upload_tmp_dir =

; Maximum allowed size for uploaded files.
; http://php.net/upload-max-filesize
upload_max_filesize = 10M

; Maximum number of files that can be uploaded via a single request
max_file_uploads = 20

Nicholas,

As it happen this is openSUSE. Thanks for the advice.... I hope other people pick this
up if they hit the same problem (but perhaps few run their own Server, rather than having it
hosted, and a profession hosing company would install it)

Richard