Drupal 7 is unable to install modules

Question

My instance of Drupal 7 is unable to install new modules via FTP link. The error message that comes up is as follows :

Warning: fileowner() [function.fileowner]: stat failed for temporary://upd92FE.tmp in update_manager_local_transfers_allowed() (line 924 of C:\inetpub\wwwroot\drupal\modules\update\update.manager.inc).

My setup is as follows :

Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit IIS 7.5 + Zend Community Server

Solution 1

Okay, found the solution.

For some odd reason the temp directory was set as the following:

This naturally would not work. Just alter the back slash to a forward slash and you will be all set =)

Solution 2

To solve this problem, just create new folder named tmp in sites/default/files

Comments

[NPC]

This helped me solve the same problem (I've updated from one version of XAMPP to another, and I guess this somehow happened in the process). Thank you!