Comments on: ExpressionEngine: “Freo Add-on Installer” makes installing add-ons a breeze

By: Phil Freo

Phil Freo — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:05:51 +0000

@Marcel, yes that’s frequently a function that shared hosts disable. You can ask your host to enable it but usually you can only do that in VPS or dedicated servers.

By: Marcel

Marcel — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:00:41 +0000

Hi Phil,

Thanks. The error disappeared, now I’ve got a new one:

Warning: exec() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/httpd/vhosts/…/modules/freo_addon_installer/mod.freo_addon_installer.php on line 416

Warning: exec() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/httpd/vhosts/…/modules/freo_addon_installer/mod.freo_addon_installer.php on line 165

Is this what you ment with shared servers?

Marcel

By: Phil Freo

Phil Freo — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:18:33 +0000

Version 1.2 was just released which fixed bugs that some people may have experienced.

By: Phil Freo

Phil Freo — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:14:48 +0000

@Marcel,
It looks like PHP is having problems creating a subfolder in system/cache. When you setup EE initially, EE/PHP/Apache should be given permissions to that folder (and subfolders). Try setting that folder to 755 or 777 and see if that fixes the problem.

By: Marcel

Marcel — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:05:01 +0000

Great idea. Two problems

1 I continue got the message:
Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Permission denied in {system_path}/modules/freo_addon_installer/mod.freo_addon_installer.php on line 66

I did change all the rights by hand (user apache, group apache, 755) but the message still appears.

2 The message The URL was not a valid .zip or .php file. Please check it and try again.

Both with url but also when i want to upload the zip and install.

EE 1.68 en safe_mod is off

By: Phil Freo

Phil Freo — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:22:11 +0000

@Nicolas
Nope, it doesn’t look like you’re doing anything wrong. I followed the recommendations from EE and used “Views” for the CP page, however apparently that isn’t available until EE 1.6.8. If I get time I’ll push an upgrade out that doesn’t use Views, but in the meanwhile your only option is to get on EE 1.6.8.

By: Nicolas Bottari

Nicolas Bottari — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:40:04 +0000

Aww, I’m not saving any time, as I got this error message after installing the module and trying to go to its settings page:

Fatal error: Call to undefined method Display::view() in /Applications/XAMPP/my_site_folder/system/modules/freo_addon_installer/mcp.freo_addon_installer.php on line 247

Am I doing something wrong? I’m on EE 1.6.7 and I moved the language file to the language folder.

Thanks, and great module idea!

By: Phil Freo

Phil Freo — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:43:41 +0000

Version 1.1 was just added. Adds better support for FieldFrame fieldtypes (as described above) and fixes problems with URLs that redirect — this allows using github source .zip URLs.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:44:40 +0000

very impressive. good job.

By: Habibulin

Habibulin — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:38:05 +0000

Phil,

Your right on, that’s the correct folder structure. Hmm…