Admin Tools will help you correct the permissions which were 755, instead of cPanel tools.

Can you use the contact form in order to send me access?
www.joomlaworks.net/support/contact

Krikor wrote: Admin Tools will help you correct the permissions which were 755, instead of cPanel tools.

Can you use the contact form in order to send me access?
www.joomlaworks.net/support/contact

I'm still confused about permissions. public_html is set for 755 but I intend to reset it with cPanel fileprotect to 750 as they recommend. Access is setup by suphp which uses accountname as access and public_html and it's descendants has acountname:accountname for ownership. Why would other extensions install but not K2?

I will send a contact form. to you.

Edit: All subfolders are 755.

Log files are in /home/public_html/administrator/logs - the default it was installed with.
Tmp is /home/l1049hoadmin/public_html/tmp again the default

These are from the control panel global configuration.

I had cPanel and my provider verify my permissions and they are setup as they should be. The public_html permissions are 750, the rest of the directories 755. I tried an install and it failed. Again it locked up the admin interface with the K2Model class error and I had to remove the plugins/system/k2 directory to get back in. I then removed the other directories and files from K2 and restored a backup of the site.

I also successfully installed Akeeba backup earlier today.

I'm using PostgreSQL but that shouldn't matter since K2 supports Joomla 3 and it supports PostgreSQL.

Actually it does matter.
K2 v2 does not support postgresql since it still supports Joomla! 1.5.

Krikor wrote: Actually it does matter.
K2 v2 does not support postgresql since it still supports Joomla! 1.5.

That's the reason then. Do you have an estimate of when K2 will support PostgreSQL? I'm moving from another CMS and the backend database made no difference since the CMS hid the details from the extensions but I guess Joomla does not do that! Oh, well. Now I know.

Krikor wrote: Actually it does matter.
K2 v2 does not support postgresql since it still supports Joomla! 1.5.

i tried it on a MariaDB site and it installs. Any idea when K2 might support PostgreSQL?

Krikor wrote: Actually it does matter.
K2 v2 does not support postgresql since it still supports Joomla! 1.5.

Well, that explains it all. The other CMS I used evidently had a database piece that hid the details from the CMS so it didn't matter what database you used it just worked. Another thing learned about Joomla - the database handling isn't done by the CMS!

Yes, if you have to support 3 versions unfortunately you have to support the lowest common denominator.

Krikor wrote: Yes, if you have to support 3 versions unfortunately you have to support the lowest common denominator.

That's understandable. It's a shame Joomla! does not have a standard database interface like Drupal but maybe one day.

It does actually, like other CMSs it will play nicely with other db's (like SQLServer) but MySQLi is recommended.

Since Joomla! is an application driven CMS, unlike WP or Drupal which are node-based CMSs, you rely heavily on 3rd party extensions so you need to use the recommended database.