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    Installingmodules(Drupal7)Last updated November 10, 2015. Created on August 27, 2010.Edited by ashish_nirmohi, latikas, David_Rothstein, krina.soni. Log in to edit this page.

    You can add third-party contributed modules to extend or alter Drupal's behavior.

    Table of contents:

    In a nutshellChoose the module fileUpload the module

    Option 1: Upload the module through the Drupal interfaceOption 2: Upload the module manually

    Enable and configure

    Inanutshell1. Download the module and extract it in the folder sites/all/modules/contrib. It is recommended toplace all third-party modules in a subfolder called contrib.

    2. Go to the Module page at Administer > Modules (http://example.com/admin/modules) andenable it.

    3. Read the module's documentation (readme file or on-line here on drupal.org) for furtherconfiguration instructions.

    Note: The drush commands drush dl module_name and drush en module_name offer probably the

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    fastest way installing modules.

    ChoosethemodulefileChoose the right release. When you have chosen a module to add to your site, you must choosewhich release to use. The version must be compatible with the version of Drupal you are using. Notethat 'Development releases' are versions of the module that are in an active stage of development.They may be written for a previous/current/future version of Drupal, are considered unstable, andshould be handled with care. 'Recommended releases' are stable and ready to use.

    UploadthemoduleThere are two basic ways to upload module files to a Drupal 7 site:

    Through the Drupal user interfaceManually on the server

    The first option will not work on many types of servers, but may be a more user-friendly choice onservers where it does work. The second option is always available.

    Option 1: Upload the module through the Drupal interface

    Navigate to the install page. Navigate to Modules > List (tab),or http://example.com/admin/modules, and click the link 'Installnew module.' (You must have the Update manager moduleenabled to see this link. For those new to Drupal, go to "Modules",find "Update Manager," put a check mark in the box by "UpdateManager" and then click "Save" at the bottom of the page. Youshould now have a link to install new modules.)Follow the prompts. You will be prompted to provide either the URL to the download, or toupload the .tar.gz or .zip file from your local computer. Click 'Install', and the Update manager willcopy the files into your sites/all/modules folder. (See Update manager for more information

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    about what that core module can do.) The next screen gives you two links. Click 'Enable newlyadded modules' and skip down to the 'Enable and configure' section.

    If your site asks for your FTP username and password, it is referring to the username andpassword to access your site, not drupal.org

    A note about FTP: If FTP is not enabled for your server, you may receive an error message. Drupal willnot be able to diagnose the problem, only tell you that there is one. It's up to you to determinewhether your server is properly configured for FTP.

    Option 2: Upload the module manuallyExtract the files.The downloaded module package will be in a compressed file format such as'tar.gz'. On Windows, use a program like 7-zip to extract the files. On modern Mac systems,double-click the .tar.gz file. On Linux or similar systems, use the command line:tar -zxvf modulename-drupalversionnumber.tar.gzYou should see a list of files extracted into a folder.

    Upload the folder. Transfer your files with SFTP orFTP to the desired modules folder in your Drupalinstallation (or if you are using version control, add andcommit them to your code repository). The modulesfolder at the top level of your Drupal installation isreserved for Drupal core modules (the ones that comewith the original download of Drupal). Contributedmodules belong in sites/all/modules. If you are running a multi-site installation of Drupal, use sites/my.site.folder/modules for modules there that are specific to a particular site in yourinstallation. Modules that will be shared between all sites should be placed in sites/all/modules.

    Please note: Especially for sites with a lot of additional modules, many people have begun to furtherdivide the modules folder, to help stay organized. A typical way of doing this would be:

    sites/all/modules/contrib for all contributed modules.sites/all/modules/custom for all custom modules.sites/all/modules/features if you have additional modules that were created using Features.

    EnableandconfigureRead the directions. If the module has an installation file (usually INSTALL.txt and/orREADME.txt), read it for specific instructions. There are modules that require special treatment,

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    and even modules that depend on other downloaded files to function properly. Sometimes theREADME file has no .txt extension. If you double-click it, your computer won't know what programto use. In that case, open a text editor first, and then open the file using the editor's 'file open'command.Enable the module. Navigate to Administer > Modules or http://example.com/admin/modules.Check the 'Enabled' box next to the module and then click the 'Save Configuration' button at thebottom. Note: If you are updating an existing module, you'll need to click 'update script' at the topof the page or load http://www.example.com/update.php, then click 'Continue' (after making abackup of both your database and 'sites' folder).Set up permissions. Some modules will require that you change permissions to get themworking. Permissions information may be in the instructions that came with the module. Navigateto Administer > Modules and click on the 'Permissions' button for the desired module. You canalso do this on the Permissions page(Administer > People > Permissions).Scroll down to see if the module appears inthe list and, if it does, give the appropriatepermissions to desired roles.Adjust settings. Most modules will havesome type of settings page. It will vary frommodule to module but if not described in theREADME.txt file, it can usually be located by navigating to (Administer > Modules) and clicking onthe 'Configure' link for that module. Not all modules have settings pages.

    Please note: You can only have one copy of a module with the same name in each Drupal site. Themodule's name is determined by the name of the .module file, not by the name of the directory.

    Tip: If you run into problems, search the module's issue queue and the forums. If your problem hasn'talready been addressed, post a question or issue and someone will try to help you out.

    Tip: To keep up-to-date on any issues and fixes related to your newly installed module(s), you cancreate a user account on Drupal.org (if you haven't done so already) and then subscribe to the feed ofeach module you are using.

    For a collection of useful materials for module developers, see Module Development with Drupal.

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    Installing modules and themes up Enable FTP on your server

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    Sorry,thispageisnothelpfulforme,anewbiecaptnbli commented 5 years ago

    No matter which way I go I cannot install a module as a newbie (Drupal 7.0 on Natty) ...

    I get the FTP issue when I try to use a URL. This page says "If FTP is not enabled for yourserver, and you try to install via URL, you may receive an error message", but it's not "my"server, it's yours (ftp.drupal.org)! Surely the wording could be improved here. What exactlyneeds to be enabled? FTP client access? I'm a Windoz user mainly and don't know Linux thatwell, but I was a developer so know a bit about these things, and frankly this wording is veryconfusing.

    Trying to use the "Install manually" option, I get the FTP thing again! AAARRRRGGGG! What???Why is it even talking about FTP when I am selecting a local file. I simply don't understand.

    Sorry, but Drupal is really hard to get into, even for a bit of a geek.

    I think there is awesome potential here (while not digging the PHP thing), and thanks for all thevoluntary effort.

    Pete,Itisconfusingtovstiadi commented 5 years ago

    Pete,

    It is confusing because there are two FTP connections here - one to ftp.drupal.org to GETthe file, and one to your host to PUT the file.It is the latter that needs to be enabled.

    K

    ItwasveryconfusingNealB commented 4 years ago

    I was confused, and I am only semi-new to Drupal. It looked like it was asking for apassword to the remote server to download the module. In reality, the remoteconnection uses http, not ftp, and doesn't require a password. It's asking forcredentials to use FTP to write the module to the local machine, probably because theweb server doesn't have write privileges to the modules directory (for securityreasons), so it needs to use FTP. It's counter-intuitive to think that Drupal needs toFTP in to the local machine. It looks like the directions have been improved on that

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    page in more recent versions of Drupal 7.x, but it could probably stand even a bitmore explanation, owing to the counter-intuitive nature of the situation.

    Anothernewbieunderstandsyourpainlbeck37 commented 5 years ago

    I was really having a hard time understanding Drupal until I came across a couple ofbooks (after looking at about 6 others) that got me going. The first was "FoundationDrupal 7" by R. J. Townsend that is really like a "missing" manual for all the Drupal menusand helped me get a handle on the pieces that make up a site, and "Drupal 7 ModuleDevelopment" by Matt Butcher, et al., which focuses on custom Module development andhelped me understand the pieces of a module by showing me how to create my own. I'mnot fully there yet, but I think I'm getting how Drupal is put together and how I can makeit work for what I need. I was lucky that where I live (Boise, Idaho) my city library hasseveral books on Drupal and especially lucky that I have access to the Boise StateUniversity (go Broncos!) library where I got access to the two books I cited above.On the specific problem you are having installing a module, I wonder if it might be easier(at least for the first module) to install Filezilla on your Windows box for doing the FTPstuff to your site and manually copy the module files over to where they go on yourDrupal site? That's kind of what I did (first doing things manually w/Filezilla).In case it's of any help, I've recently started using a low cost ($5/month, one monthminimum) hosting service from DailyRazor (they call it their "Standard Linux DeveloperPHP/Ruby on Rails" plan). I was previously using WinHost because I was doing .NET stuffbut although they supported PHP, they had some trouble with Drupal plugging-and-playing. I found it was very useful to have a remote hosting service (that Drupal runs on)to run my stuff on and the $5 commitment made it pretty easy. I think there are othercheap hosting services (HostGator has been recommended to me) that might be better inlong term, so far DailyRazor has worked OK so I'm continuing to use it until I need tochange.

    Don'tknowwhatIwouldhavedonewithoutthispageLukesArmy commented 2 years ago

    I have been on here for 8 hours trying to get at least one thing uploaded to my new site. Iput a post up in the forum and have been looking all over the place until I went to the chatand someone posted this page for me. Simple: Enable Modules, then add module, andpost the url from the tar.gz and vuala. Down the bottom of the page is the modules thatneed to be enabled, tick them and save. Have uploaded two modules in five minutes.Thank God for that.

    Can'tfindtheinstallbuttonontheModulespagecreativeputty commented 5 years ago

    Just installed Drupal 7 on my localhost and trying to install some modules. The problem is Idon't see the "+install new module" word link on my Modules page. And I tried installingmanually by placing the folder as instructed, but I still can't find them on the Modules' page toturn them on.

    Any help would be appreciated. TIA.

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    Onemorethingcreativeputty commented 5 years ago

    I just did some test and found that the above problem occurred when the site wasexported from Drupal Gardens then imported to my local host with Acquia dev desktop.When I created a new site from DAMP, the "Modules install" link was there as expected.Anyone know why that is?

    I'mgladitwasn'tjustmecreativeputty commented 5 years ago

    http://www.drupalgardens.com/content/after-exporting-site-where-install-...

    Here's the answer.

    Lesson learned: when installing modules from sites exported from Drupal Gardens,you have to do it the old-fashion way.

    NoWayToGetAroundThis?Starland commented 5 years ago

    So a site that was exported from Drupal Gardens is fatally flawed to never beable to have the "Install New Module" link on it? Seems there has to be asolution. Anybody?

    The"Installnewmodule"linkdazweeja commented 5 years ago

    The "Install new module" link only appears if you have the Update Managermodule enabled.

    That information should really be added to the documentation above.

    Missinginformationindocsvlad-ghita commented 4 years ago

    The "Install new module" link only appears if you have the UpdateManager module enabled.

    That information should really be added to the documentationabove.

    I'm a new user and I had to read the above comment to understand why the linkis missing. Please put this information in the docs above.

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    Thank you.

    AnotherDrupalmysterysolvednsnoblin commented 4 years ago

    That answers my question. Thanks.

    Thanks!AbbyG88 commented 10 months ago

    Thank, dazweeja! That solved my issue.

    Goingcrazypepajul commented 5 years ago

    I got that famous FTP error... always. but I DO have FTP server running and I am sure I amentering the user and password correctly, so I don't realize what's the problem.

    Well, I'll try to do it manually, but it is a pain :(

    IthinkIhaveasolutionforthisFTPcredentialsquestionTheOptimizer commented 5 years ago

    I have been fighting this problem several times, without success.Now I have been able to pin down the problem.

    The wanted behaviour is:

    You paste the url of the module or theme you want to installYou click installYour module or theme gets installed

    What I have seen on several installations, and this is what you don't want:

    You paste the url of the module or theme you want to installYou click installIt asks for some FTP (or SSH) credentials. WTF??????

    To avoid this, make sure the folder /sites/default is OWNED by the user that executesthe drupal scripts. On most Ubuntu installations, this is the user apache user: www-data.

    Don't ask me why this works. I don't know if this is intended or not. It doesn't make somuch sense to me, but there might be an explanation. For me it would be OK that thetemporary directory is writable by the apache user and the themes or modules folder iswritable as well.

    So this should do the trick when the user is www-data:chown www-data sites/default

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    Log in or register to post commentsI hope this works. Please let me know.

    Thisneedstobechanged!!!philip-iii commented 5 years ago

    The actual problem is that for some beyond retarded reason inmodules/update/update.manager.inc on line 706 (in my present setup, drupal 7.2)the following check is performed:

    if (fileowner($project_real_location) == fileowner(conf_path()))

    with the comments explaining that conf_path() resolves to e.g. sites/default (why the"e.g." is beyond me - could it be something else?!? or is "i.e." what the authors meantto say?).

    The $project_real_location (how real could it be, it is a temporary location underneathtemporary:/") is where the file is downloaded and extracted.

    Depending on the server setup, this can be randomly complicated by a number offactors. Fact is, even if the web server user has all the rights to write all over theplace, it wouldn't make any difference. Enjoy wasting your time trying to make it doso.

    And why select a location that is generally created manually prior to installation tocheck its ownership against files actually created by the web server user. There mustbe a better way to deal with this.

    Eventhough, Wordpress is using a similar mechanism (someone is bound to haveborrowed it in/from Drupal), they do have a configuration option that overrides this.This is in particular a problem when users can manipulate their setup, but cannotchange ownership of files, and especially critical when performing backup, migration,or other maintenance tasks.

    Even if there is no easy workaround for this, there has to be at least a hint clarifyingexactly what the problem is and how to go about this in case it occurs.

    Also note that the web server user may vary. On our setup it was assigned to games(id=5) for whatever reason, so intuitively changing the ownership to www-data(id=33) did not make any difference.

    If there is absolutely no way around this, then include an empty file that serves thissole purpose - controlling the write access, but for goodness sake, do not rely onsome odd side effects.

    I could only join the above user(s) in their frustration! Way to waste people's time!

    EDIT:P.S.: Please do excuse my tone, but I can imagine that the time spent on writing thisparticular piece of code is by no means comparable to the number of users affectedby this and the amount of time they wasted trying to figure this out. The impact ofthis is quite large (just do a random search for issues related to this). Although it is

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    not directly a security issue, it may have led many people to go against commonsecurity practices in desperate attempts to fix this (as some "solutions" appear tosuggest).

    Also, the amount of misinformation being spread regarding this issue, withoutunderstanding the actual problem, is quite astounding. There should be absolutely noneed to fall back to FTP in this case or to manipulate permissions randomly in hope offixing the problem (chances are it will not work anyway).

    workedformemkapst commented 4 years ago

    So this should do the trick when the user is www-data:chown www-data sites/default

    I hope this works. Please let me know.

    yes it did work

    worksformetoodaniel.rapp commented 4 years ago

    So this should do the trick when the user is www-data:chown www-data sites/default

    works fine,Thanks

    Multisiteconfigurationcaligari commented 4 years ago

    So this should do the trick when the user is www-data:

    chown www-data sites/default

    But with multi-site configuration it must be done over the multisite directory:

    chown www-data sites/_multisite_directory_

    Canyoutellmepleasewherefemrich commented 4 years ago

    Can you tell me please where this code needs to go? Thanks.

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    ifyouhaven'tfigureditflacoman91 commented 4 years ago

    if you haven't figured it out, I was able to figure this out here.https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Drupal

    In terminal, I had to add the -R flag to get the owner to change for all of themodule directories.in my case, it was where all of your contributed modules should go in thesites/all directory.

    sudo chown -R www-data:www-data sites/all

    whatwillbethecodeforlocalhost4eSolution commented 4 years ago

    What if you are having same problem with local host? where can you enter thecode on mac machine and what would be the code?

    YESITDOESWORKneeteex commented 4 years ago

    Many many many thanks for solving this issue, I've been searching for good while !chown www-data sites/default

    URwelcomecaligari commented 4 years ago

    Oh yes. It was a little headache to find the trick. I hope the solution is greatsaving time for others :)

    Thesolutionsuggestedbyrsutaria commented about a year ago

    The solution suggested by TheOptimizer has worked for me!

    Pleaseupdatethisandallrelatedhelpdocumentation!steve23063 commented 4 years ago

    Drupal team, I don't understand how this page hasn't been updated yet! I just installed Drupal(version 7.8) for the first time and it was extremely frustrating that I couldn't figure out how toget a module installed. I'm not sure if ANY of the previous comments have been read by theperson who wrote this document or if this one will be read, but the current documentation isvery incomplete. The message about FTP needing to be enabled is absurb, but people havealready discussed this. Changing my sites/default ownership to www-data wasn't sufficient. Ihad to follow the instructions on this link to get modules to install on my Debian 6 linux

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    installation:

    http://drupal.org/node/244924

    More specifically:[root@localhost]cd /path_to_drupal_installation[root@localhost]chown -R greg:www-data .[root@localhost]find . -type d -exec chmod u=rwx,g=rx,o= {} \;[root@localhost]find . -type f -exec chmod u=rw,g=r,o= {} \;

    FTP.loopzilla commented 4 years ago

    I have disabled FTP on my server. I have full control of my server, with Drupal, Mediawikietc installed, and I regard the use of FTP by anybody to be a security issue. I do allowSFTP, but only on request, and for limited periods.

    Do Drupal developers believe that FTP is in common usage?

    Syntaxclonerep commented 4 years ago

    I haven't used Linux in over 3 years and only used it for about 2 years before that so I'm a bitconfused by the syntax. I need to run "sudo chown -R www-data sites/all". It took a while but Ifigured out that "site/all"="the websites' directory". I understand the beginning of thecommand, from previous experience, but what is "www-data". After reading a comment below,it seems like this may reference the domain of the site and I should actually create a useraccount named with the domain name on my box. Basically, is "www-data" literal orfigurative? If it is figurative, what exactly is it?

    Isuggesttrying'manchown'gobeltech commented 3 years ago

    I suggest trying 'man chown' if you have access to a Linux box or reading the man pageonline somewhere.

    www-data is the user account that would own the 'sites/all' directory (and everythingbelow it with the -R flag used)

    Thisworkedforme:sudototsubo commented 4 years ago

    This worked for me:

    sudo chown -R www-data sites/all/

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    OSXphilclarke commented 11 months ago

    Note: That if you are having this problem on OSX you will want to use www instead ofwww-data. The command below fixed the problem for me.

    sudo chown -R www:www sites/all

    See comment below re: security from David.

    PleasedoNOTfollowtheadviceinmanyofthecommentsaboveDavid_Rothstein commented 4 years ago

    In particular, you should not be doing something like chown www-data sites/default (asseveral of the above comments recommend) just to make the experience of installing moduleseasier on your site.

    Doing this will make your website less secure. In particular, it will open up the attack surfaceconsiderably in the case of a vulnerability elsewhere on your server. Seehttp://drupal.org/node/244924 for more information.

    Drupal (and the Update Manager module installation process) will work in this scenario, butthat's mainly because it has to. Some servers (e.g. shared hosting) are set up this way anddon't give website owners a choice, so Drupal will work with it if it has to, but it's still notrecommended. We're also discussing this further at #932110: On some servers, the UpdateManager allows administrators to directly execute arbitrary code even without the PHPmodule and might consider putting some deliberate roadblocks in place to make it a little lesseasy to install modules via this route.

    Installing modules through the user interface is not required, and it's not intended for everysite. For the most part, if you don't want to have a poorly-secured server setup and/or youdon't already use FTP to manage your codebase, it's not for you. The "Install manually" (sincerenamed to "Option 2: Upload the module manually") option described in the documentationabove still works, just like it always has in Drupal.

    I think the documentation isn't too clear on this point (that they are both legitimatealternatives) so perhaps we should edit it to make it a bit more clear.

    IjustmadeanumberofeditsDavid_Rothstein commented 4 years ago

    I just made a number of edits to the page that will hopefully make this more clear. It couldprobably still use a bit more editing, though.

    workedbutwithissuesdlee20 commented 4 years ago

    'chown www-data sites/default' got me past the first hurdle but I also had to add 'chown www-

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    data sites/all/modules' because I received an error about being unable to create insertdirectory....

    youcanalwaysdoitfromderpasaurus commented 4 years ago

    you can always do it from command linecd /var/www/sites/default/modules/wget http://(module link)then it'll show up in available modules

    chown'ing your system to www-data means your webserver can write to that area now, soany haxor, bot, spammer and whatever can compromise your system now.

    onwindows,installmodulebyftpshyamite commented 4 years ago

    example viewshttp://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/views-7.x-3.3.zip

    Question:WithregardtoCablestein commented 4 years ago

    Question: With regard to pasting the module URL (from Drupal.org), how does the moduleupload process work? Does the file first get downloaded by your browser, then uploaded, viaFTP, to the website? Or does your web server grab the file from Drupal.org directly, using FTP ?

    Question: Why isn't HTTP used instead of FTP when uploading a module file from the interface.Can't a module file just be uploaded to sites/default/files/ and then do stuff with it?

    http://drupal.org/node/1608658nidhisingla commented 4 years ago

    check it.

    ModuleUploadDrupalinterfaceavailabilitypeterroome commented 4 years ago

    Hi -

    The following comment "The first option will not work on many types of servers, but may be amore user-friendly choice on servers where it does work. " was made in the upload mduleinstructions. Can someone please explain why the Drupal module upload interface doesn'twork for certain hosting providers? I'm using Bluehost (which is supposed to be recommendedby Drupal.org) and the "Install New Module" feature isn't available. I'm trying to figure out ifit's a function of the hosting provider, my Drupal configuration (7.14), or if it's just me and mylack of understanding on some of the finer points of Drupal...

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    If anyone can help, let me know.

    Thanks!

    thenewbiesinpainscrm000 commented 4 years ago

    I was there as well several years back..The answer, and you know I'm right-and you aregoing to moan and sigh is

    -drop gui and learn some distro of linux command line

    your pain goes away;0

    Pagenotfoundmartin74 commented 3 years ago

    I get the following error

    The requested page "/?q=media/browser&render=media-popup&types%5B%5D=audio&types%5B%5D=image&types%5B%5D=video&activePlugins=&id=media_wysiwyg&plugins=undefined" could not be found.

    looks like the popup with the file selector cant be found

    all i get in configuration isMediaFile systemTell Drupal where to store uploaded files and how they are accessed.Image stylesConfigure styles that can be used for resizing or adjusting images on display.Image toolkitChoose which image toolkit to use if you have installed optional toolkits.

    im missingFile typesMedia browser settingsRebuild type information for media

    does anyone got some good suggestions ?

    Thereisno/admin/modulesor'Installnewmodule'Oolong commented 3 years ago

    Took me about half an hour to realise that I needed to go to /admin/config/modules not just/admin/modules. Didn't see the 'Modules' tab on the 'Configuration and Modules' page. It looksgreyed out. I thought any options within the Config menu would show up as a sub-menu, butno. I suppose this is the sort of thing you get used to when you've been using Drupal for awhile, but it was entirely counter-intuitive to me and I don't know why it doesn't match what

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    was described here and in all the INSTALL.txt files of modules I've looked at.

    I also don't know why 'Install new module' doesn't appear. The 'Update manager' modulementioned above seems to be enabled.

    WhatversionofDrupal7?David_Rothstein commented 3 years ago

    I think the behavior you describe was the case way back in the day (when Drupal 7 wasunder development, well before Drupal 7.0 was officially released).

    But in the actual Drupal 7 release, the page is definitely called "Modules" and it'saccessible at admin/modules. So the documentation here is correct.

    KilledmysitedrooperNZ commented 2 years ago

    I installed the zip file via the admin panel and enable it.Now I cannot see my site. I can see : can't open file - and that's all.

    Spent 2hours trying to fix this and no joy. I advise all people not to use this module. I have noidea how to get my site back as I've tried every fix I could read.

    Not happy.

    ifpossibleuninstallthescrm000 commented 2 years ago

    if possible uninstall the module from the admin console..If you cannot no big deal.enter

    command line

    cd into modules folder...Reverify before executing the following command the exact nameof the module and then

    rm -rf foo.file

    installingmoduleindrupal7.31usingubuntu14.04Ruchiku commented about a year ago

    Hi,I am trying to install a module in drupal 7.31 using ubuntu14.04 but getting following error:Warning: ftp_login(): Login incorrect. in FileTransferFTPExtension->connect() (line 59 of/opt/lampp/htdocs/drupal/includes/filetransfer/ftp.inc).Failed to connect to the server. The server reports the following message:

    Cannot log in to FTP server. Check username and password

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    i have also triedsudo chown www-data:www-data -R /opt/lampp/htdocs/drupal/sitesas my drupal is within /opt/lampp/htdocs/ but still getting same errors.

    Please help

    autoinstallinsites/all/modules/contrib??Nicolas Bouteille commented about a year ago

    Using option 1), Update Manager extracts contrib modules in sites/all/module. Where/How canI specify to extract in sites/all/modules/contrib instead ?

    Dveloppeur Drupal Freelance Design Web & Intgration

    WeakestLinkinDrupalisThisFlakeyGUIjonjonz commented about a year ago

    In my opinion, this page, and this function is the single greatest flaw in Drupal that confusesmore users and drives potential users away. Many new and even experienced Drupal usersfind the GUI method does not work for them and they end up here, 1- hoping their site has notbeen scrambled, and 2- painfully trying to figure out which manual procedures to follow, asthere are multiple to choose from depending on version of Drupal, and other factors. If thiswas cleaned up and streamlined so that it simply worked for 90% of all users, it would do morethan anything else in getting Drupal more widely adopted.

    Differentdirectorystructurestephenc976 commented 11 months ago

    Ok, so I did not use the official installation method to put Drupal on my Ubuntu server. InsteadI used apt-get install, primarily because as a once-upon-a-time Windows user, I findsudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get -y dist-upgradeto be almost magical -- even years after first learning it.

    The problem is that my directory structure is not exactly as it is described in a lot of these helpdocs. Drupal is located in (what seems, to me at least, to make more sense) in /usr/share/drupal7 with config files where one would expect config files to live, in /etc/drupal/7/.

    Problem here is that /usr/share/drupal7/sites/ is a link to /etc/drupal/7/sites/, which doesnot (and should not) have a modules folder.

    What gives? Where should I put my modules? I understand why they should not go in /usr/share/drupal7/, but can't figure out where to put them!

    Please help.

    Blankpageafterupdating.

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    JeriM commented 8 months ago

    I updated and added new Modules to the site and it was working but it complaint aboutneeding a newer versions and security update.I updated the Ctools and it is working then I updated File Entity and View modules; now mypage is blank.

    10 hours later.. tada... ;)It is working now but because I disabled Commerce and several new modules :(

    http://cme4.com/Drupal/

    However when I click on various pages, I have to use ?q= on the URL ;(

    I know, .htpaccess problems and I have error messages that are not showing up on the page.

    Errormessagedreanel85 commented 8 months ago

    When trying to install this module via the modules menu link, I get the followingmessage:Automatic updating of Drupal core is not supported. See the upgrade guide forinformation on how to update Drupal core manually. Someone please advise.

    Thanks.

    ErrormessageUpdateJeriM commented 8 months ago

    Did you install this Drupal Core Module manually or did you used the tool from your webhosting site?

    Did you back up the database? Did you put your site to Maintenance Mode?However, I do not think you can do it.

    For updating other module, you can do it but make sure:that you set the $update_free_access = TRUE;It is in the sites/default/settings.phpChange it back to FALSE

    Jeri M

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