uploading doesnt work

[ianaddisonuk]

I have my site working all nicely, got a site setup n about 6 hours, much much easier than joomla 1.0!

but when i upload an image, it says that it cant connect to my ftp. I have used the same ftp address, username and password as when i connect to the site using an external ftp program but it wont work. I also cant change the configuration file as it says it can not open it to write to it.

I assume I need to change the permission on the config file, but even with it being 777 and all boxes ticked, it still wont connect via joomla's ftp.

I managed to get docman working, but now its the config and image uploaders...any ideas?

here is my error message

JFTP::connect: Could not connect to host "ftp.*mydomainname*.co.uk" on port 21
JFTP::_putCmd: Not connected to the control port
JFTP::_mode: Bad response
JFTP::_passive: Not connected to the control port
JFTP::write: Unable to use passive mode

Message
An Error has occurred! Unable to open configuration.php file to write!

[firefighting]

Have you tried resetting to default to see if this helps

In admin
Components>DOCMan>Configuration>General click Reset Default
Components>DOCMan>Configuration>Security click Reset Default

HTH

[ianaddisonuk]

Hi thanks but Docman is working fine. Its the configuration file (for the whole site) and the image uploader to put pictures into content that arent working

[alonebfg]

to me a lot of these errors are caused by permissions you need to have image dir set to 775 min try that if not give me a shout and i will have a look when i have time.

[alonebfg]

Ok hope it is all sorted i will look into it some more but for some reason ftp dont work on some servers but as long as permissons are ok php will sort uploads.