Magento connect not working

[tecnotopia]

Hi all,

Have anybody installed Magento and made magento connect work?, I used the 1-click instalation and Magento is not getting the updates when using the Magento connect option, I get a bunch of erros and looks like is something related to the VAR folder permisions.

By the way the 1-click instalation Magento version is quite outdated, Magento is now on 1.16 and the 1-clik one is 1.0.x.

[community-manager]

Tecnotopia,
I am investigating the problem.
Thanks

[kazey]

it appears that magento is trying to send output to the browser before the session_start, which is a no no..

Will investigate further.

[kazey]

A solution to this is to change line 459 of the file System.php in this directory:

/downloader/pearlib/php/System.php

it says

return realpath('/tmp');

change it to

return realpath('/var/www/domains/YOUR DOMAIN/tmp');

[decarvalho]

I have been working on this same issue for a long time. Have tried everything, including the change to the system.php file and the access setings on the downloarder folder. I still get this:
Error: Please check for sufficient write file permissions
Your Magento folder does not have sufficient write permissions, which this web based downloader requires.
If I understand this correctly, the access settings need to be configured on my root linux account folder. Could the team confirm this, please?

[O2]

Hi,
Has anyone been able to fix this. I've the same issue.
Magento Connect Manager doesn't work.

I've pretty much tried everything. Any help with this .. will be greatly appreciated. Thanks...

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Error: Please check for sufficient write file permissions
Your Magento folder does not have sufficient write permissions, which this web based downloader requires.

If you wish to proceed downloading Magento packages online, please set all Magento folders to have writable permission for the web server user (example: apache) and press the "Refresh" button to try again.
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[ceiboss]

I haven't tried what you are doing, but I've been working with Magento for a while and it pretty much comes down to them wanting $500 to resolve any problem that somebody in the community can't fix for you. I'm having a problem with checkout when I get to the shipping section, I'm getting warnings that it can't find a directory, etc. I've contacted myhosting who said it was a magento problem (which I can understand). I went to a magento "consultant" who suggested I reinstall...which I did and had no affect. So I contact Magento and they were very indignant when I suggested they may have a bug in their software. They suggested that I buy support for $500 to resolve the problem.

I can't justify paying that for something I think should work out of the box....it's not like I'm doing anything custom. I just filled in the blanks and started testing.

Good luck. I think I'm going somewhere else. Scott

[ccmorris]

If you are experiencing the following error

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Error: Please check for sufficient write file permissions
Your Magento folder does not have sufficient write permissions, which this web based downloader requires.

If you wish to proceed downloading Magento packages online, please set all Magento folders to have writable permission for the web server user (example: apache) and press the "Refresh" button to try again.
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You will need to change the file permissions for the following folders, subfolders, and files:
magento/app/etc
magento/app/code
magento/var
magento/media

An appropriate file permission would be 777 (rwxrwxrwx).

This error occurs when Magento Connect does not have permissions to modify and update files in your Magento installation. It is recommended that you use an FTP client to recursively set file permissions (CHMOD) in your Magento folder.

[platnumcn]

I have same problem on nike-dunks-sb.com anyone can help, thanks.

[dvdmeer]

Check this from downloader\Maged\Controller.php:

if (is_null($this->_writable)) {
$this->_writable = is_writable($this->getMageDir())
&& is_writable($this->filepath())
&& (!file_exists($this->filepath('config.ini') || is_writable($this->filepath('config.ini'))))
&& (!file_exists($this->filepath('pearlib/config.ini') || is_writable($this->filepath('pearlib/pear.ini'))))
&& is_writable($this->filepath('pearlib/php'));

Worked for me.