I hope this is true but it finally worked for me after many hours spent installing and reinstalling CKeditor and CKfinder on both Drupal 6 and 7 on more than one site! (yes I am dense)
*** What I FINALLY discovered is that you can not browse images unless "text format" is set to FULL HTML. ***
I do not know if this is an accurate statement or not but I do know that I have actually had CKfinder/editor installed correctly more than once but thought it was not working because I did not have FULL HTML set. I looked and there was no "browse server" button so I assumed the installation failed yet again. ERRRR.
There are many good instructions and videos out there, for instance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzg26YJi2W8 or http://yadadrop.com/drupal-video/ckfinder-file-browser-ckeditor-drupal
so I won't repeat, but what I found as the critical steps are:
-downloand the drupal MODULE ckeditor
- then you must download the actual ckeditor and ckfinder software itself into this drupal container.
- the directory structure is critical -(sites/all)/modules/ckeditor/ckeditor and (sites/all)/modules/ckeditor/ckfinder (follow the screencasts)
- then you must make some changes to the ckfinder config.php AND your settings.php for that drupal instance (follow the screencasts)
- you must manually set permission EVEN FOR USER #1
- you must tell ckeditor to use ckfinder (instead of using IMCE for instance)
- THEN true or false, right or wrong, at least I had to have FULL HTML turned on to see the "browse server" button.
I hope this helps someone and does not send them further astray.
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Further insight re:CKeditor CKfinder dumb mistake SOLVED
wish I could have edited the original post, but..
You can set image to work in filtered HTML but you may not have and many of the tutorials dont't tell you to. so if you did not, the default is usually filtered HTML, so you may try it and have it not work. hope this helps save someone some hours.