How to manually install JReviews when normal installation fails

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If after your failed installation you can see JReviews in the components menu in the Joomla administration, follow these steps:

1. Create the two JReviews component folders, if not already present, in:

  • /administrator/components/com_jreviews
  • /components/com_jreviews

2. From the JReviews component zip package, extract all files, except jreviews.s2 to the /administrator/components/com_jreviews/ folder

3. Rename jreviews.s2 to jreviews.zip and extract the files/folders to /components/com_jreviews/

4. To finalize the installation, login to the administration and enter the following url:

  • http://yourdomain.com/administrator/index.php?option=com_jreviews&url=install&sql=1