{"id":67246,"date":"2016-03-23T09:53:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T13:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/?p=67246"},"modified":"2017-08-16T09:57:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T13:57:42","slug":"joomla-3-x-warning-failed-to-move-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/joomla-3-x-warning-failed-to-move-file.html","title":{"rendered":"Joomla 3.x. How to deal with “Warning: Failed to move file!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our Support team is ready to present you a new tutorial that shows how to deal with “Warning. Failed to move file!” message in Joomla.<\/p>\r\nJoomla 3.x. Warning: Failed to move file!<\/a>\r\n

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  1. You can see the “Warning: Failed to move file!” error message trying to install the template or some extension through the Joomla admin panel. You can also see “Failed to create site directory” message. <\/p><\/li>\r\n

  2. This error is caused by the incorrect CHMOD permissions set for some folders.<\/p><\/li>\r\n\t

  3. To resolve this issue, you will need to do the following:<\/p>\r\n\t

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    1. Navigate to System > System Information > Directory Permissions in your Joomla admin panel: <\/p>\r\n\r\n\"joomla_warning_failed_to_move_file_1\"<\/a>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t\t

    2. There you can see the list of directories that are not writable, they should have write permissions assigned:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\"joomla_warning_failed_to_move_file_2\"<\/a>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t\t

    3. Open your Joomla installation using the hosting file manager or via FTP, locate the needed folder:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\"joomla_warning_failed_to_move_file_3\"<\/a>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t\t

    4. Change the specified folders permissions to 755 or 777 (depends on your server settings), you can refer to this guide <\/a> for more information:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\"joomla_warning_failed_to_move_file_4\"<\/a>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\t\t

    5. When all folders are marked as writable, you will be able to install any extension through the admin panel.<\/p><\/li>\r\n\t\t <\/ol>\r\n\t <\/li>\r\n\t<\/ol>\r\n\r\n

      Feel free to check the detailed video tutorial below:<\/p>\r\n\r\nJoomla 3.x. Warning: Failed to move file!<\/a>\r\n\r\n

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      Our Support team is ready to present you a new tutorial that shows how to deal with “Warning. Failed to move file!” message in Joomla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":67251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[724],"tags":[1397,918,483,1188,785],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82758,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67246\/revisions\/82758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}