By boytaichi on

i downloaded fckeditor 6x to my module directory. but i got the following error message:

The FCKeditor component is not installed correctly. Please go to the FCKeditor homepage to download the latest version. After that you must extract the files to /modules/fckeditor/fckeditor/ and make sure that the directory /modules/fckeditor/fckeditor/editor and the file /modules/fckeditor/fckeditor/fckeditor.js exist. Refer to the readme.txt for more information.

can someone tell me what's wrong? i checked the download. there's a file called fckeditor.config.js, but there is no fckeditor.js.

also, if fckeditor is not a mature module, can someone suggest another rich editor available for drupal 6?

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spamjim’s picture

spamjim commented

"Please go to the FCKeditor homepage to download the latest version."

http://www.fckeditor.net/

FCKEditor seems mature enough for my Drupal 6 installation. I have not hit any bugs. I was previously using TinyMCE with Drupal 5 and switched to FCKEditor since TinyMCE is not available for Drupal 6 yet.

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mustoeh commented

Have you installed the FCKeditor component from the FCKeditor home page as in your error message?

There should be a file COPY_HERE.txt in modules/fckeditor/fckeditor when the module is installed. This gives an address of the FCKeditor home page and what should be copied into that folder. So you need to download and extract a file from that home page (FCKeditor 2.5.1 is the stable version at the moment) then copy the content of the extracted file into the second level fckeditor folder in your modules area (most use /sites/all/modules/ for non-core modules).

The second level folder modules/fckeditor/fckeditor/ will then contain fckeditor.js (amongst quite a few other files). The file you mention (fckeditor.config.js) is found in the top level module/fckeditor/ folder but doesn't exist in the second level modules/fckeditor/fckeditor/ folder (although there is a similar sounding file fckconfig.js). See the README.txt file in the top level for a little more info on the file you mention.

This requirement to download an extra component for editors is not uncommon by the way.

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boytaichi commented

thanks for your help. but i have the following questions:

per the readme file, i did the followings:
1. downloaded the fckeditor module from drupal.org and put into /modules/fckeditor,
2. downloaded fckeditor from fckeditor site, and put the files into /module/fckeditor/fckeditor
3. enabled the module in drupal, set permission, tuned fckeditor settings, etc.

now when i try to submit a content, for example blog entry, in the "body" part of the content, it says "page not found", instead of a blank field for me to write content.

i'd appreciate if you can tell me what's wrong.

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juggled commented

*bump* I am having the same "page not found" error. Anyone know what the cause of this is?

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pieterdt commented

Same issue here...

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earlwer commented

If you are having problems with the normal fckeditor/download page, try using the SourceForge page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fckeditor/

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ebeng commented

I don't know if anyone is still having problems installing FCKeditor but if so, and if your installation is similar to mine, the following might help.

Fckeditor Installation with cPanel

Upload the Drupal fckeditor module - fckeditor-6.x-1.3-rc6.tar.gz – from the Drupal.org site.
Upload the FCK module from FCK - FCKeditor_2.6.3.tar.gz – from the http://www.fckeditor.net site.

Extract the fckeditor-6.x-1.3-rc6.tar.gz to the mysite/public_html/sites/all/modules folder or if in a subdomain to the subdomains/mysite/sites/all/modules folder.

fckeditor-6.x-1.3-rc6.tar.gz comes with a primary fckeditor folder and a sub-folder called fckeditor. The sub-folder contains a text file COPY_HERE.txt that reads as follows:

“Go to http://www.fckeditor.net and download the latest version. Then uncompress the contents of the "fckeditor" directory of the download file to this folder (modules/fckeditor/fckeditor).”

What the above instruction says, is to extract the FCKeditor_2.6.3.tar.gz FILES to the sites/all/modules/fckeditor/fckeditor folder. BUT in cPanel this is not exactly clear.

When you use the cPanel extraction tool the extracted files come in a folder. In this case, the extracted folder is named “fckeditor”. If you extract FCKeditor_2.6.3.tar.gz into sites/all/modules/fckeditor/fckeditor, as seemingly instructed, you will end up with sites/all/modules/fckeditor/fckeditor/fckeditor. The extracted FILES are in the 3rd fckeditor folder. The module will not work. The files need to be in the 2nd fckeditor sub-folder, not the 3rd. If you make this error and then try to move the files to the proper position you may or may not meet with success, because some files seem to be protected by the developer and will not move or delete. I made this mistake and had to call your web host company and have them delete the entire module so I could start over.

SO, in cPanel you extract FCKeditor_2.6.3.tar.gz to sites/all/modules/fckeditor. The newly extracted fckeditor folder will REPLACE the fckeditor sub-folder that contained the COPY_HERE.txt. Now your files are in the correct position, the second level fckeditor folder, and the module should work.

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steniskis commented

Thank you Ebert, it spared me much time. Your explanations deserve to be in the official page of FCKeditor.
Sten