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#8781 Install in Joomla 1.6 - one issue about language folder

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Latest post by nicholas on Thursday, 20 January 2011 12:14 CST

Thursday, 20 January 2011 02:40 CST

user18741
Installed into sub-directory, the Joomla 1.6 installer said "Installing component successful" and then right below that in red error it reads: JFolder: :delete: Could not delete folder. Path: (blank on purpose)/public/joomla16/tmp/install_4d37f207d2e61/backend/language/en-GB

Then in configuration, it says:
"Your server does not support encryption of your configuration settings. We strongly advise you not to store any passwords in the configuration."

Undaunted, I then went to the backup and started the process,
and as I expected it read back

Backup Completed Successfully

Congratulations! The backup process has completed successfully.
You can now navigate to another page.

First test with non-remote backup works fine. Wanted to share about the /tmp file for language though.

Thursday, 20 January 2011 02:50 CST

nicholas
The first issue sounds like a bug in Joomla!'s com_installer. Please submit a bug report in Joomla! 1.6's bug tracker so that the maintainer of this feature can take a look, replicate the issue and fix it.

The second issue means that your server doesn't have the mcrypt PHP library installed or enabled. This is required for Akeeba Backup Professional to support secure (encrypted) storage of your configuration settings and for creating JPS (encrypted) archives. Akeeba Backup will still work with unencrypted settings; it's designed to fall back to a plain text storage format. However, if you can convince your host to enable the mcrypt extension you will ahve much better security of your settings in the unlikely event of a hacker trying to exploit a SQL injection vulnerability to dump your Akeeba Backup settings.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Thursday, 20 January 2011 11:09 CST

user18741
Bug is reported in Joomla Code 24521 is the ID and I asked about the mcrypt as well. Thanks.

Thursday, 20 January 2011 12:14 CST

nicholas
You're welcome!

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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