User's Manual

Installation FAQ
12
http://www.your_site.com/administrator/index2.php?
option=com_virtuemart
and submit (press Enter).
7. You should now see the "Installation was successful..." Screen. There you can click on "GO TO
THE SHOP >>" or "INSTALL SAMPLE DATA >>" (when you want to have some sample
Products and Categories in your Shop).
8. That's it.
9. To install the Modules and Mambots for VirtueMart, follow the instructions of the Automatic
Installation, Steps 6 and 7. If this doesn't help you, because NO automatic installations are possible,
you can manually upload the files (you have probably already done this in step 3).
Modules and Mambots require an entry in the table jos_mambots / jos_modules.
You can add these entries by uploading an SQL file (using phpMyAdmin) that contains all
necessary queries:
/administrator/components/com_virtuemart/sql/
virtuemart_modules.installation.sql
Now you should have installed VirtueMart correctly.
2.2.5. Installation FAQ
2.2.5.1.1.The Installer tells me "ERROR: Could not find an XML setup file in the
package". What's wrong?
Mostly this problem arises because you have not unpacked the file
VirtueMart_x.x_COMPLETE_PACKAGE.zip before and tried uploading / installing this
file.
2.2.5.1.2.The Installer tells me "Another component is already using the directory
com_virtuemart"
Please delete the directories /site_root/components/com_virtuemart and /
site_root/administrator/components/com_virtuemart. If you can't delete
the directories using ftp, try the file manager for Joomla!, eXtplorer [http://
extplorer.sourceforge.net], instead.
2.2.5.1.3.When using the automatic installation nothing happens after clicking on "Upload & Install" or
the installer tells me "Failed to move to /media directory" What's the cause?
VirtueMart is a big component, its installer file archive has a size of more than 2 MB.
When uploading this file to your server you can wait a long time until the file is
completely transferred to your server. You can use the Remote Installer for VirtueMart
instead! (Remote Installer for VirtueMart) [http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/virtuemart/frs/?
action=FrsReleaseBrowse&frs_package_id=192]
2.2.5.1.4.What are those tar.gz files, aren't those for Unix/Linux systems only?
tar.gz Archives come from the Unix World, but they can be used on Windows and Mac systems
as well. On Windows you can unpack them using Winzip or Winrar. Gzip has a much much
better compression than Zip, that's one reason why most Open Source projects use it for their
distributions.
2.2.5.1.5.On an upgrade from mambo-phpShop, the VirtueMart installer won't recognise my existing
tables! What to do now?