By drbeaker on

I need to change the ftp settings Drupal uses to do things like unload new themes / modules, but I can't find them anywhere. Where are they?

TIA

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mukesh.agarwal17’s picture

mukesh.agarwal17 commented

Drupal does not provide any FTP settings. If you dont want to use modules, disable and uninstall them. If you still want to remove the modules to reduce the size of your document root, you have to ftp to your hosting solution and remove the module from there.

Mukesh Agarwal
www.innoraft.com

drbeaker’s picture

drbeaker commented

The first time I ran the update is asked me for the username and password to use to ftp to the site. These credentials were then stored as it's never asked me again, but now I need to change them.

j. ayen green’s picture

j. ayen green commented

I've seen this question come up again and again, and I have not seen an answer. Drupal asks for ftp credentials once. It uses these for downloading module updates (which STILL doesn't work for me). It must store them somewhere...?

drewkeller’s picture

drewkeller commented

It asks for the ftp settings if the session info for them is empty. In other words, try closing your browser and reopening and going back to the "install new module" page. It should ask for your settings again.

trotskyicepick’s picture

trotskyicepick commented

No answer to the original question so far. I'm using the Open Enterprise profile of Drupal 7 and yes indeed it asks for ftp credentials when installing, my ftp server wasn't correctly configured at the time so I provided temporary information.

Now, whenever I try to install/update apps (specific to Open Enterprise, but the situation is just as applicable to vanilla Drupal), it fails because I cannot find anywhere an admin option to change a sites ftp settings.

hclaus’s picture

hclaus commented

Caveat : new drupal user. As far as I understand, the ftp info is NOT stored in the database, and is only remembered in your browser. So in principle you have to enter the information every time you go to : control page > modules > Update . I created an ftp account on the website host with user name 'drupalAdmin' and the home directory directly pointing to the website root (where the 'sites' and 'modules' directories reside etc) and it worked fine. My browser remembers the username/password for me. Btw : as file ownership can be an issue, I make sure that drupal is first installed under Apache : I install eXtplorer first, and use this tool to upload an unzip the drupal files, so all files/directories are owned by Apache. I remember this was an issue when I stated with Drupal.