Issues with file permissions in Joomla

[greenhorn]

I'm running Joomla 1.5 something on Debian linux.

Whenever I try to upload component packages, (downloaded to my PC computer as a .zip file) I get the error:



* JFolder::create: Could not create directory
* Component Install: Failed to create directory: "/var/www/canonblog/administrator/components/com_mojo"

I have tried to fool around with my file permissions, IE, running

 chmod 777 /var/www/canonblog/administrator/components

But I still get this problem.

I would really appreciate some help on this. Have set up Joomla sites in the past but have never had this problem. Is it something in my Joomla or my server?

[bigtomrodney]

You might want to check the ownerr and groups anyway, though in this case you are granting full read/write/execute to everyone. The first thing I can think of is to make the chmod command recursive using the -R switch

chmod -R 777 /var/www/etc/etc/etc

[greenhorn]

I still get the same error, even after making the chmod command recursive.

See, what the program has to do is create a directory. Is it possibly a Mysql issues that may be my problem here?

This is the line for the /components folder when I run: ls -l

drwxr-xr-x 29 501 501  4096 2008-07-07 09:18 components