A Joomla developer asked on a forum: “I have a joomla site which is using linux hosting. when i am going to install a module, it is showing an error “* JFolder::create: Could not create directory* Unable to create destination”.”
Someone had suggested that this developer should change the file permissions temporarily to 777 (read/write for everyone), in order to get over this obstacle. I told him that “You should not set anything on the site to 777. Absolutely ALL directories should be 755 and files 644 (except a couple of crucial files in the root, which should be 444, for safety). Temporarily setting directories to 777 is a ‘worst case scenario’ solution and should only ever be used in serious emergencies. Permanently doing this is a total no-no! If the /temp, /administrator/modules and /modules directories are set to 755 and the log file path is correct, then the problem
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