Hi,
I'm already running a drupal installation and I'm trying to build up an additional portal with drupal.
I've just installed drupal6.5 and added two themes from the themes section under ./sites/all/themes but they are not appearing in the theme selection.
I didn't had this problem with my old site and I have no idea how this is possible.

It would be nice if someone has a hint for me.

Thanks!

Roi Danton

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RoiDanton commented

Hmm I have the same problem with the modules.
I can copy anything in the sites/all/modules folder but nothing appears on the modules configuration page.

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lipcpro commented

Just a thought, are those directories readable by the web server user? I think it's a permissions issue.

RoiDanton’s picture

RoiDanton commented

I have set these folders to 755. This didn't helps.
What else can I check?

Thanks for your help!

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lipcpro commented

It's a lot more involved then just setting the permissions to 755, it has to be readable by a user/group also. You need to make sure that whatever user apache is running as (nobody, apache, www-data ...) owns the directory or is at the very least in the same group as the owner.

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RoiDanton commented

Thank you for your answer lipcpro.
I verified that my apache is running under the user apache and he is the user is owner of the whole drupal directory.
What else is necessary to use this feature?

Thanks for you help!

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lipcpro commented

It's quite possible that apache owns the main directory but it might not own some of it's subs.

Ok, here are a few more ideas to check
who owns and /or in what group are the
/sites/all
/sites/all/modules
/sites/all/themes
and any of the files in them, if they aren't owned by the server or the server isn't in the group and doesn't have read permissions, you have to add the server to the group and/or give the group read perms. Sometimes when people upload through ftp they forget to chown the files or they aren't set for the right group in the first place.

is your host running selinux, this might help
http://drupal.org/node/50280

HTH
lipcpro
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lipcpro commented

Another thought just came to mind. Are you sure they are drupal 6 themes? If there isn't a .info file they probably aren't, but you could get around this by copying a .info file from another version 6 theme and editing it to have the values needed, then it will show up in the list. Be prepared tho, they may need tweaking or blow up all together.

lipcpro
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ainigma32 commented
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

@RoiDanton: Can you confirm you resolved this issue with lipcpro's info?

- Arie

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ainigma32 commented
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Fixed

Looks like RoiDanton won't be posting any feedback so I'm setting this to fixed.

Feel free to reopen if you think that is wrong.

- Arie

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.