Magento connect doesnt install extension

Question

After moving a site from local to remote server. I cannot get the magento conect manager to install extensions. No obvious info regarding this paticular error online.

If give an extension url....it will show the preloader for a few seconds, before returning to the connect page, with no error.

If use the package uploader, initially i had a 'could not move files' error...but changing certain dirs to 777 fixed this. I did set all folders to 777, to test if this helped. It didnt.

Anyone know this error? Otherwise manual extension installs for me :( Could this be apache related....or moving files via FTP from local to remote server? I say this based on some forum posts i read.

Thanks S

Solution 1

If the following files exist try removing (or renaming if you prefer to be safer) them.

downloader/connect.cfg
downloader/cache.cfg

These are generated by Magento the first time you use connect. The cache file stores a full path to your install, so when you move to a new server this likely isn't a valid path.

Solution 2

chmod 777 var/package/tmp/package.xml

should do the trick.

the directory is from your magento home directory.

Solution 3

Maybe you run out of disc space. I raised disk quota on my server for this account, and the problem disappeared.