0777 is not a good permission to use… it might be interfering with the ajax the install uses – as this has been more of a global problem for ajax…  0755 is more recommended…  so give that a try (I did read your initial note on users)…

did you try going to your server via ssh and changing owner after uploading?

Wp-content needs 777 (or other user write permission) or it fails to install.

I can’t ssh onto my servers.  I really want to get Simple Press working.

Can upload and install any other plugins and themes ok (including 2 other fourms). 

Would this be solved if I could just upload Simple Press to the desired locations instead of going through its own complex installation method?  Is there a manual way to install it?  I imagine others have had the same issue but I’ve not found anything on this.  I need some sort of instruction on this if its the only solution. 

Again just for your info I wiped the site and database to start clean to ensure there was no conflicts.

you can ftp it up to your site… or download the zip file and use the wp plugin loader panel to add it in…

thats not a complex install method.. standard to put the plugin in the plugins dir whether through ftp or wp… not sure how else you would do it…

how would yo propose to create the data directories for sp? if not through ftp or ssh, how? We really dont care where or how as long as you define the where on forum – integration – storage locations… but you have to have storage locations…

Yes that is how I have put other plugins in that is the automated install.  Getting the plugin into WP and activating and installing.

How can I manually install it is there a way?   I want to do what the installation does but extract the directory structure on my work station and FTP it up so its all under my user account just like pretty much everything else running on the site.

yes and no… you cannot change the default behaviour…

but you can rebuild it or whatever you want when its done…  if you extract the archive on you computer, look in sp-startup/install and you will see a part 1 zip and part 2 zip… the files in there are the ones extracted… you can put them whereever you want…

just go to forum – integration – storage locations and point the storage locations to where you created the space…

When you add permissions to allow the site to write to wp-content it says its installed ok (on appearance).

The first time you setup a forum group the plugin/install seems to break.  The plugin will never work until fully removed manually which for me requires admin intervention as I cannot remove sp-resources as the plugin install locks me out of those permissions.  The result being I cannot install and uninstall at a whim.

When the plugin gets reuploaded again by changing everything in wp-content 777 recursive write I can install the plugin and set up a forum group.  I never figured out what exactly was causing it to break here however.

I recall checking to see if I was following all instructions correctly.  Perhaps in later releases you could document what permissions the site requires when you install via a browser.  Or where to manually extract/copy the files or more debug in the plugin installation.

I decided to move on to other software as I lost time on this but I appreciate your help hopefully this may be of help if someone else comes across the same issue.

OK