Installing Fireboard in Joomla 1.5
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 05 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Tech Tips
Fireboard is a forum application that integrates with Joomla. It works without any problems in Joomla 1.0, but when you try installing it in 1.5, you get the following error (the folders may be different on your installation):
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Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 58368 bytes) in /var/www/joomla15/libraries/joomla/installer/adapters/component.php on line 548
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What’s happening here is that PHP is running out of memory and more needs to be allocated for the installation to succeed. There are two ways you increase the memory.
- Modify php.ini
If you are using your own server, find the php.ini file (on Linux, type locate php.ini) and add the following command:memory_limit = 12M
If this command already exists, the increase the memory to 12M.
- Modify .htaccess
Chances are that you won’t have access to php.ini if you are on a shared hosting plan. The alternative is to edit the .htaccess in the root folder of your Joomla installation. The default installation of Joomla has the file named as htaccess.txt. You will need to rename it to .htaccess before adding to it. Add the following command to the .htaccess file:php_value memory_limit 12M
If the memory problem persists, increase the value until it works.
As a side note, you need to have the System - Legacy plugin activated before you can install Fireboard. The application was written for Joomla 1.0 and won’t run natively in 1.5. You can find the plugin through the Extensions menu, and then select Plugin Manager.
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on 10 May 2008 at 11:44 am 1.Aria said …
Hi,
Wonder if you have any suggestions re: a rather huge problem I have been having trying to integrate fireboard with Joomla… was supposed to be quick and easy but not so.
Fireboard may or may not add a user registered through Joomla to its list, but the great problem is that it does not seem to recognize the user as registered and doesn’t give access to the message board when it is set to “registered users”.
Hope I made the problem clear.
I initially had CB installed along with UddeIM but have since uninstalled those components as the system didn’t seem to integrate one with the other, particularly fireboard which picked up that a user was registered, but did not give access to the categories/forums. A newly registered user saw an empty message board and when ‘view latest post’ was selected got an Error 403 message.
The problem persists now that I have fireboard as the only component.
You mentioned admin.fireboard.zip elsewhere, do you suppose this would be a fix for this situation? Thanks for any ideas you may have on the matter.
on 13 May 2008 at 2:07 am 2.Johan Cyprich said …
I had problems installing Fireboard as well. I got it to work when I did a clean install with the latest version of Joomla and Fireboard.
I haven’t tried installing Community Builder, but it seems like an interesting application. I’ll try it and write about the results.
If you need help installing Fireboard, I could give you greater assistance if you can let me know what type of web host your using and how you installed each application.