By jaydigga on

I installed drupal 4.7 thru the control panel on powweb.com (my web hosting I rented). It automatically installed in my root folder. Now I need to know do I need to instaled Drupal on my own computer. I use ftp thru Dreamweaver to access and change files. I want to update and add modules to my site but I do not know how. I download modules to my computer from Drupal site but I'm still not sure what to do with them. I know it has something to do with uploading the mods to the server in the right folder. I see mods but it doesn't look like they would go there.

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vm commented

modules are indeed uploaded to the modules folder in Drupal 4.7. What you see there are core.module files. When you upload a contributed module, you leave it in the contributed moudules folder and upload the entire folder.

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Bendo commented

If you only copy the directory from the server Drupal cannot work. You need also Apache web server, PHP and MySQL up and running in your machine if you want use Drupal in a local folder.
More simple is to install modules in your live site. Just upload the module in the modules directory. After they will appear in your administration section inside your live site.