JInstaller::install: File '...' does not exist

Question

My installer has been working until a few days ago, now I get:

JInstaller::install: File '/home/john/public_html/tmp/install_4c578c96e449f/com_mycomponent/admin/site/controllers' does not exist.

I checked the zip file and everything looks ok, I changed file contents but not the file structure at all since the time it was working.

ZIP STRUCTURE

com_mycomponent.xml
admin
     controllers
     ...rest of admin files
site
     controllers
     ...rest of site files

In fact the folder com_mycomponent/admin/site/controllers does in face not exist, I don't know why it is looking for this folder.

Answer 1

Please check your templateDetails.xml file. It must have mentioned about the folder name. Also, make sure if you want to add folder through template then that folder must not be empty

Answer 2

I had the trouble that I had accidentally put a copy of the xml file inside the admin/ folder in addition to in the root folder. Maybe this happened to you too? Just delete it and it works fine!