I am trying to get the publishing features activated on my SharePointer server. I have followed the tutorial here... Enable Publishing Features. When I try to activate Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure I get this error..."Publishing sites and features cannot be activated in the Central Administration Web Application."I can't find anything that explains how I'm supposed to activate publishing if this method doesn't work or what to do with this error. Any help on this would be great. Thanks.

Try activating them in the Site Collection of your portals instead of the Central Admin.

Hi Guys, I am new to MOSS 2007 and have the same problem as above. However i have tried both site and central admin 'site features' but cannot get the Enable publishing features working. Other features are all working. Let me know if you have any tips for finding a solution. Thanks Yatindra

I just had the same issue. I had to first activate the Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure in the site collection features and then activate the Office SharePoint Server Publishing in the site features.

Also having same problem need solution ASAP anyone got any ideas

I had this... you need to go to the Site Collection Features section of your Site Collection... I kept going to my site collection as myself instead of the administrator... when I'd go into Site Settings, I'd see Site features and try to use that... The Site Collection Features link wasn't there... when I logged into the Site Collection as the administrator account, the proper "Site Collection Features" link showed... then it worked...

When I attempt to turn on the Publishing infrastructure i get the Error: One or more features must be turned before this feature can be activated. I tried turning them all on.. but still get the error.

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Thanks sergey, this post is useful

I got the same error while "Activating" at Central Administration web application level.After the below scripts at site collection level, it completed without any issues.Run stsadm -o activatefeature -name PublishingSite -url http://<Site Collection website>/"Run stsadm -o activatefeature -name PublishingWeb -url http://<Site Collection website>/

i also ran into the same problem. solved it by going into IIS. click properties of the web application you want to activate. click "home directory" tab at the bottom select central administration application pool iireset in command prompt activate the feature go back and change application pool account back to the original under "home directory" iireset in command prompt that fixed the problem for me.

Thanks Sergey, It did the trick.