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My host updated PHP to 5.5. last night. Now, I can't login to my Joomla back-end because of an error. It says that CiviCRM does not have permission to write temp files.

What can I do to make sure that I can login to Joomla again? I was thinking about:

a) Deleting all files in media/civicrm/templates_c or

b) Disabling all CiviCRM folders

Any help or tips would be great.

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  • Can u try doing option a and check if that helps
    – Donald Lobo
    Commented Jun 11, 2015 at 11:33
  • The first option helped. I'm able to login at the back-end again. Additional question, which minimum version of CiviCRM must be installed with the latest Joomla 3.4.?
    – Frank v D
    Commented Jun 11, 2015 at 11:58
  • Great! Your second question will get more attention if you post it separately - go on :) - civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/ask
    – Chris Burgess
    Commented Jun 11, 2015 at 12:07

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They may have changed how they're running PHP for your hosting, which could lead to your old templates_c files being unwritable to the new PHP process.

As Lobo's comment advises, removing the files and ensuring that the templates_c is world-writable should resolve the permission issue.

It'd be ideal if templates_c belongs and is writable only to the new PHP process.

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