EasyPopulate 4.0 Support Thread

[w2e]

how to i choose a download directory on my pc when i download from EP4?
i do not see any settings in configuration, and it automatically downloaded without asking me?

[mc12345678]

how to i choose a download directory on my pc when i download from EP4?
i do not see any settings in configuration, and it automatically downloaded without asking me?

If the download from your site to your local pc is what you are referring, that is more of a browser specific issue... Some browsers automatically download to the download directory of the user's profile, some ask the user what they would like to do with the file: ie, open it with a specific program, save it, save it to a specific directory, etc... If you are talking about that you are currently "running" the site on a local computer and you have selected to export a file type, then it will download to the directory identified in the configuration settings that of course is on your local computer (as the site is on your local computer.) To answer the question a little better, would need more detailed information.

[w2e]

how come when i export a file, it is automatically owned by "nobody"?
when i click download, i get "You don't have permission to access *.* on this server?" even if i chown, and chmod to 777, i still cannot download the file?
(i moved /temp into admin, and i have no problem opening EP4)

[mc12345678]

how come when i export a file, it is automatically owned by "nobody"?
when i click download, i get "You don't have permission to access *.* on this server?" even if i chown, and chmod to 777, i still cannot download the file?
(i moved /temp into admin, and i have no problem opening EP4)

Believe either in the little bit of direction provided or definitely in this forum, if you check your .htaccess rules and ensure that you are not preventing .csv files from being transferred/read... Would look for/see: jpg |gif etc...

[DrByte]

how come when i export a file, it is automatically owned by "nobody"?
when i click download, i get "You don't have permission to access *.* on this server?" even if i chown, and chmod to 777, i still cannot download the file?

That's a consequence of how your hosting company configured your webserver. Contact them for help in understanding why they did that. (It's an old-style configuration, which might suggest your server could use some modernization to keep up with the times.)

[DivaVocals]

That's a consequence of how your hosting company configured your webserver. Contact them for help in understanding why they did that. (It's an old-style configuration, which might suggest your server could use some modernization to keep up with the times.)

Or perhaps a BETTER more MODERN webhost is in order..

[w2e]

That's a consequence of how your hosting company configured your webserver. Contact them for help in understanding why they did that. (It's an old-style configuration, which might suggest your server could use some modernization to keep up with the times.)

thing is that after i manually chown and chmod, i still cannot download...?

[DrByte]

Not surprised. User 'nobody' has restrictions.
It's a server thing.

The root user might have to alter the permissions in order to have them take effect.
Or, the hosting company could change the way Apache is configured so that stops happening, but that change affects other users and has security implications, and if the server administrator doesn't know much about security then they'll probably refuse to make the change.

[mc12345678]

thing is that after i manually chown and chmod, i still cannot download...?

In the meantime (and sorry to push through for operation) it should be possible for you to ftp the file(s) off of the server, or if the utility to edit the file(s) is able to "safely" do so they could be manipulated remotely. Whatever the case, it appears that cause of the current problem has been identified to be unrelated to EP4, is a server side issue, and something is to be done about it. I say though, why stop progress when it is possible to move on even if it has some difficulties for now... :) just your friendly neighborhood cheer crowd to keep you going. :)

[mc12345678]

Version 4.0.28 has been posted to github. This version accomplishes two actions. 1) will bypass the use of mb_internal_encoding if it is not activated. A message (although not large) will be present on the EP4 admin tools window.. The effects of not having this functionality implemented (site/server/php.ini related) does not appear to be heavily documented; however, routine functionality remains. 2) The code has been modified to open (extend) functionality to all versions of ZC at or above 1.5.3. Again, this is an extension of functionality, no functionality has been removed from previous versions of ZC... There are 2 new files that will need to be installed if not previously installed by other plugins. They are based/named from what was published by lat9. There were a few minor corrections made to the commented text, but no change to functionality. EP4 will send tracking requests for all insertion and update actions made to the database.

Anyways, 4.0.28 may be obtained from: https://github.com/mc12345678/EasyPopulate-4.0 currently, but hopefully from: https://github.com/chaddro/EasyPopulate-4.0. General directions are provided in the first post of this thread.

There are no configuration window changes made from 4.0.27; however, if the option to Export URI with Prod and or Cat is not in your list of configuration options, then upon copy of the files to your server, it would be recommended to select the uninstall followed by install links when at the tools->Easy Populate 4 window.

Otherwise, file replacement/upload is all that is necessary to upgrade from 4.0.27 to 4.0.28. Again, the updated code will still work on older versions of ZC, but now will also work on ZC 1.5.4.