By basby on

I am not sure if I should post this question in this forum.

I have a running drupal site and I use contributed modules. Unfortunately I placed the contributed modules in sites/site-1/modules in stead of sites/all/modules.

Now I am building a second website which uses many modules the first site uses as well. I want to use the multi site feature of Drupal. Therefore I need to move modules which are shared by both sites to sites/all/modules. I do this as follows:
1. make a backup (of course)
2. move module X from sites/site-1/modules/X to sites/all/modules/X
3. call www.site-1.com/update.php
4. call www.site-1.com/admin/build/modules and select "save configuration"

Module X is now up and running from location sites/all/modules/X. The problem is that the configuration of the module is completely lost. I do have this problem with e.g. CCK (fields I created are gone) and captcha.

Does anyone knows a solution to this? Is this a known problem or do I do something wrong?

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bwv commented

I could not tell from your post: prior to moving module X, are you deactivating it? After moving module X, but before doing your update.php, are you reactivating it?

I recently worked on a site where all the third party modules were placed in the /modules directory. I first deactivated all third party modules. Then I moved all of them to sites/all/modules. Then I reactivated them in admin/build/modules, and all configurations were preserved.

Hope that helps you untangle things a bit.
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basby commented

Thank you for your reply!

I did not first deactivate the module. In the past I lost configuration settings when I updated to a new drupal version.
I will try however your suggestion. Thanks.

What exactly did you do after moving the modules? Did you only reactivate them? Or did you also execute update.php? Or anything else?

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basby commented

I deactivated captcha, moved the code from sites/site-1/modules to sites/all/modules, reactivated captcha and voila, everything worked! Settings were preserved. I did the same with pathauto and again it works. This solution seems to work for me. Great!

Thanks again for your help!

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basby commented

Everything I wanted to move has been moved! Even moving CCK did not give problems.
I am a happy man!

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bwv commented

Congrats! All these module configurations are held in the system and/or variable tables in the db; if you poke around in those tables you will be able to see the paths to the modules.
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