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hello,

i have been working on problem 2 days , have surrendered forum help.
my site has been working fine , have made no changes in last 3 weeks have been away no internet access.

my problem can not install components via extension manager. have read , re read different threads , forums across net , point same conclusion files , folders must permission 755 or 777. have checked directory permission list , green @ moment. lost access configuration file gained using ftp client , changing permission. value of tmp path (public $tmp_path = '/clientdata/apache-www/h/o/mysite.com.au/www/tmp'; set correctly. every , loose writeable status of configuration file , have permission write again. have tried making new tmp folder , addressing in configuration.php file still error same, these errors:
warning
warning: failed move file!

jfolder: :files: path not folder. path: /clientdata/apache-www/h/o/mysite.com.au/www/tmp/install_5391abc188464

jfolder: :folder: path not folder. path: /clientdata/apache-www/h/o/mysite.com.au/www/tmp/install_5391abc188464

jfolder: :files: path not folder. path: /clientdata/apache-www/h/o/mysite.com.au/www/tmp/install_5391abc188464

jinstaller: :install: cannot find joomla xml setup file

error
archive not exist

look familiar??

i tried via akeeba can't access backup folder either , permission 777.

i have contacted hosting company , have not altered server or permissions.
it strange have configuration.php file automatically change after many tries of installing extension.

at 1 stage extension trying install written tmp folder , can seen via ftp sitting in components folder not in joomla's manage extensions can not remove extension. extension com_breezingforms_185.zip.
i have tried many other extensions see if extensions issue.

many thanks

leigh

this sites environment:

php built on linux php-shared-6 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 smp sun may 6 04:00:17 utc 2012 x86_64
database version 5.5.32-31.0
database collation utf8_general_ci
php version 5.4.16
web server litespeed
webserver php interface litespeed
joomla! version joomla! 3.2.3 stable [ ember ] 6-march-2014 14:30 gmt
joomla! platform version joomla platform 13.1.0 stable [ curiosity ] 24-apr-2013 00:00 gmt
user agent mozilla/5.0 (macintosh; intel mac os x 10_9_3) applewebkit/537.36 (khtml, gecko) chrome/35.0.1916.114 safari/537.36

safe mode off
open basedir none
display errors on
short open tags on
file uploads on
magic quotes off
register globals off
output buffering off
session save path tcp://192.168.100.30:6379
session auto start 0
xml enabled yes
zlib enabled yes
native zip enabled yes
disabled functions posix_setegid,posix_seteuid,posix_setgid,posix_setpgid,posix_setsid,posix_setuid,posix_kill,pcntl_alarm,pcntl_exec,pcntl_fork,pcntl_getpriority,pcntl_setpriority,pcntl_signal,pcntl_wait,pcntl_waitpid,pcntl_wexitstatus,pcntl_wifexited,pcntl_wifsignaled,pcntl_wifstopped,pcntl_wstopsig,pcntl_wtermsig,ignore_user_abort
mbstring enabled yes
iconv available yes