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copied!<p>This is typically a file permissions issue. If the system cannot write to the tmp directory within Joomla it will give you the "Warning Failed To Move File" error.</p> <p>The typical solution is to make the directory wide-open, in general a bad practice but a quick fix. You log in to the Linux command line via a terminal (telnet or ssh) session and set the permissions of the directory.</p> <pre><code># chmod -R 777 ./tmp </code></pre> <p>The better option is to find out what user/group the Apache server is running as and assign the permissions accordingly. For example, if Apache is running your site as the myuser:nobody user:group then you can open up write permissions for the group by changing ownership of the tmp folder and making it writable by anyone in the group:</p> <pre><code># chgrp -R nobody ./tmp # chmod -R 775 ./tmp </code></pre> <p>Security can be a pain to get set correctly if you don't know *nix commands and security settings, so most people just blast a huge hole in the security with chmod 777.</p> <p>The next thing you'll probably run into is another error message about not being able to update a specific directory. Again, this is a permissions issue and is typically a piece of the file being unzipped into the administrator subdirectory. Depending on whether your installing a component, a module, or a complex plugin with multiple pieces you may need to open up one or more of these directories using the same approach as above. Here is the "blow a big open hole in security" method:</p> <pre><code># chmod -R 777 ./administrator/ </code></pre> <p>Or more selectively:</p> <pre><code># chmod -R 777 ./administrator/components/ # chmod -R 777 ./administrator/modules/ </code></pre>

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