Moving Modules and Themes
Last modified: October 15, 2007 - 19:22
In Drupal 5 and above the best practice is to keep all of your contributed modules and themes in the sites/all/modules or sites/all/themes directory, as appropriate. If you are upgrading from a previous version or have already installed them in the main modules or themes directories and you wish to move them, it is possible but you just need to make sure Drupal knows you moved them.
- Go to Administer > Site Building > Modules (or Themes) and disable the modules/themes you wish to move.
- Move the modules/themes to the new directory you wish them to live in.
- Now go back and enable the modules again. Drupal will locate them in the new directory and update the system table as needed.
That's all there is to it.
Hit the modules page
The system table gets rebuilt when you visit: admin/build/modules. So if your module has moved and you've forgotten to disable it then just visit the modules page and you should be fine. Typically you'll see a PHP "Fatal error: Call to undefined function myfunction()" error when Drupal doesn't know where your module is.
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