Installing modules and themes

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Now that you've installed Drupal, you will want to customize it to your tastes by adding modules and themes. The basics of managing modules and themes are fairly similar. If you browse to the sites/all folder you will find a README.txt file.

This directory should be used to place downloaded and custom modules and themes which are common to all sites. This will allow you to more easily update Drupal core files. These modules and themes should be placed in subdirectories called modules and themes as follows:

sites/all/modules

sites/all/themes

You can find a synopsis of any contributed module or theme by visiting its project page, but many modules and themes also include README.txt file with more detailed information.

To view a module's README.txt file without having to download anything, visit http://drupalcode.org/project/modulename.git/blob/HEAD:/README.txt. Be sure to first replace the word modulename with the name of the particular module.

For themes, visit http://drupalcode.org/project/themename.git/blob/HEAD:/README.txt.

Comments

Update manager

Posted by JacobSingh on October 19, 2010 at 6:45pm

We should update these docs to show the GUI options for adding modules, shouldn't we?

Yes, in fact, that is the

Posted by glacialheart on January 15, 2011 at 3:30am

Yes, in fact, that is the very reason I am visiting this page. I got an error using the module installer built into D7. Came here to find info about debugging it.

I would change the world, if God would give me the source code.

I have the error also i dont

Posted by aaantos on January 12, 2012 at 9:54pm

I have the error also i dont know why

module installation asking for FTP credentials?

Posted by jan.ptacek on January 21, 2013 at 10:40am

you probably have a secure installation where the web server is not an owner of the sites/default directory so drupal can't just download the module there.
if you are on your localhost or you understand the security implications -- just change the owner of the sites/default folder to match your webserver process username (is _www on my osx) and modules will be installed just on one click
best Jan

upgrading the core to a new minor release

Posted by keb on May 26, 2011 at 7:04pm

Look for the UPGRADE.txt file in the tarball.

Wrong thread

Posted by enkrypt3d on November 11, 2011 at 5:53am

oops wrong thread

Installing themes and modules

Posted by LobiJani on January 20, 2012 at 3:43pm

Hi!
I'm new to drupal and I'd like to know in which directory should I place the "sites" folder?

Thank you for your answers

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Posted by shamio on April 6, 2012 at 1:07pm

You don't need to place sites folder because it will be made automatically when you install Drupal CMS.You can access sites directory using file manager of your server control panel. For example the address of it is usually something like it in Linux based serves: public_html/Your_Drupal_Folder/sites. And you can access installed themes and modules in .../sites/all folder.

Doubt is the father of invention..... Hub mesh

installing themes using the drupal update manager UI admin

Posted by gwhiz on July 19, 2012 at 8:12pm

Can we install the themes without FTP? I heard that we can use SSH/SFTP instead? How do we configure the drupal admin UI on the website to use SFTP instead of FTP? With the nice feature in the D7 UM UI, of pasting a URL from the drupal.org theme zip file into the APpearance tab->"Add new theme" box, it seems we need FTP to be running the web server for that? Can't we use something secure like SSH/SFTP/SCP on port 22 instead?

I usually don't run the browser for the admin on the webserver itself, but on a remote machine, and don't like to have FTPD running on the web server due to security.

Thanks!

Theme and Module Install using Drupal UI

Posted by thesean19 on September 16, 2012 at 8:19pm

Enable Update Manager in the core modules section and you will be able to install themes and modules using your web browser.

Sean Garrigan

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I want to add yui menu in my drupal website, so that how can i add library and how its implement process.

Please help me if you can.

thanks
ashok kumar

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