Could someone please tell me what the system requirements for this component are?

I've installed it successfully on my localhost server but when I try to install it on my hosting account I get the following error:



* Component Install: SQL Error. DB function reports no errors
* It was not possible to copy the selected file.
* JInstaller::install: Failed to copy file: /homepages/34/d120369431/htdocs/its/Chronicles/tmp/install_48a34dab54cf3/biblestudy.xml to /homepages/34/d120369431/htdocs/its/Chronicles/administrator/components/com_biblestudy/biblestudy.xml
* Component Install: Could not copy setup file


I have no problems installing other components, modules, or plugins, only this one.

We're not had that kind of error before. Is it possible that on another failed install (happens sometimes in Joomla) that an orphan xml file got left in that folder? You might try manually checking to make sure there are no com_biblestudy folders under /components and /administrator/components.

Tom

Thank you for the quick response.

I've checked and there are no com_biblestudy folders in either admin/components or components folders.

I've tried to manually install this by copying admin/components/com_biblestudy and components/com_biblestudy to my installation on my hosting account and then importing the database via phpAdmin but I get the following during the import:

CREATE TABLE `jos_bsms_podcast` (
`id` int( 3 ) NOT NULL ,
`title` varchar( 100 ) default NULL ,
`website` varchar( 100 ) default NULL ,
`description` varchar( 500 ) default NULL ,
`image` varchar( 130 ) default NULL ,
`imageh` int( 3 ) default NULL ,
`imagew` int( 3 ) default NULL ,
`author` varchar( 100 ) default NULL ,
`podcastimage` varchar( 130 ) default NULL ,
`podcastsearch` varchar( 255 ) default NULL ,
`filename` varchar( 150 ) default NULL ,
`language` varchar( 10 ) default 'en-us',
`editor_name` varchar( 150 ) default NULL ,
`editor_email` varchar( 150 ) default NULL ,
`podcastlimit` int( 5 ) default NULL ,
`published` tinyint( 1 ) NOT NULL default '1',
PRIMARY KEY ( `id` )
) TYPE = MYISAM AUTO_INCREMENT =2

MySQL said: Documentation
#1074 - Too big column length for column 'description' (max = 255). Use BLOB instead

This makes me wonder if it is a problem with either the PHP version and/or the MySQL database version.

The server is running PHP 4.4.9 and I'm importing into a MySQL v4 database but I can change it to a version 5 if needed.

Version 5 would be better. We have had install problems with MySQL version 4. Manually installing won't work either because the install files do a lot of heavy database modifications.

See if MySQL 5 works for you and we'll go from there.

Tom

Switching to MySQL didn't help the installation problem, I still get the same error. However it did allow me to import the database from my localhost server so I now have this component running on my hosted server.

Basically what is did is:
1.I created a zip archive with the entire website from my localhost server.
2.Using ftp I transfered the archive to my hosting account
3.Unzipped the archive, thus overwritting my existing install with the new install that includes all the files for this component
4.I exported my entire MySQL file from my localhost server
5.I imported the data dump from step 4 into my newly created MySQL version 5 database.

I brought up the hosted website in my browser and all my sermons are there.
I logged into the administration panel and was able to go to the Bible Study componenet and add the new server and server folders.

I admit this is doing it the hard way but I don't have time to play around with it, sorry. Luckily this is a new site and I'm able to do this. On an existing live site this would have been a problem.

Thanks for your help.

Wow. You really had to go through a lot. sure sorry about that but glad you got it up and running.

Tom