By tommy999 on

Hi All

I am completely new to drupal as I am trying it out instead of use rapidweaver. So far I have installed drupal and Mamp (am on OSX). I downloaded a test theme to try and upload it to the site, which I unzipped and added to the theme folder, thinking that was it!

I was looking through the internet to see how to do this and noticed that I need a FTP client, so I downloaded filezilla. I went through the process of the install and all seemed fine.

I then followed a tutorial to install a file by drag and drop into the FTP client - drupal theme folder. Went to the drupal page and the theme is not there. I have some basic knowledge of programming and am thinking that the FTP is not connecting to my drupal site. It is however connecting to the computer local host. I have also been into the appearance/update and done a manual check, but nothing. What login and pass word do I try? Do I need MAMP and filezilla?

I hope that I have explained it properly and do apologies if I have not.

If you need pictures to aid please say what is needed as i do not want to just put pictures of anything up.

Many Thanks

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andrewtf commented

There's no need to use an FTP client with MAMP, since all your site files are stored locally. Just move/copy any themes, modules, and other files to the appropriate folder in the htdocs directory in your MAMP install. For example, on my Mac, I can find it under Applications » MAMP » htdocs.

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mariafromatoz commented

Hi tommy999,

I have mamp and drupal installed in my home computer. I may be able to help.

First just for clarifycation, are you trying to run drupal just in your own computer or do you want to upload it to a host server?

Maria

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tommy999 commented

Thanks for your reply.

I am running off my computer at the moment. I will remove filezilla and see how that works.

I have added the new theme folder to the htdoc_Themes, but still unable to see it in Drupal.

Many thanks

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Patroclas commented

Themes go in sites/all/themes/ and not in /themes (which is where the defualt themes live).

Good luck!

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tommy999 commented

ok so at present it is:

Applications_MAMP_htdocs

Would you be able to send yours for comparison?

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tommy999 commented

@patroclas, do I need to change my MAMP preferneces or do I keep them as: application_MAMP_htdocs?

Route for the site is application_MAMPs_htdocs_drupalnew_sites.

I have put the new theme into here also but still not getting a response.

Many thanks

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tommy999 commented

I think I may have found the issue, I tried to upload the theme through drupals upload area. It says that it has no .info.

The theme comes from a PSD that I convert through psd2css.com.

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gbrands commented

The themes you use have to be Drupal specific themes. If it was not created specifically for Drupal it will not work. Browse www.drupal.org/project/themes for themes related to your Drupal version. Download one of these and extract to the following directory:
application_MAMPs_htdocs_drupalnew_sites_all_themes
or (more familiar for me at least)
/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/drupalnew/sites/all/themes

Then you will have to enable it and set it as the default under 'Appearance' when logged in as admin to your site.

Hope this helps!

-= Gerrit Brands

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mariafromatoz commented

Just in case, Drupal comes with default themes; better to try that everything works with those themes first.