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By SheilaHoff on
I'm in a mess.
Background: This has been my first Drupal experience. I built a trial site last June then didn't touch it again until recently. It never went live. I suspect some of the issue is that it was initially in v6beta and I didn't update anything. At any rate it was all working pretty well until I posted asking for help with our events calendar and was told that was an old approach and i needed to install these modules: CCK, Views, Date (with Date API), Event, and Calendar and follow the tutorial Drupal Therapy. I didn't get that far. Something went terribly wrong and after trying 6 ways to revive the site I gave up yesterday and started from scratch on a new server.
Now: I have a new clean install of v6.10. I got it all looking the way I wanted and added a lot of the content. My next step was to follow the instructions for the above listed modules. I FTP'd CCK and activated it. I uploaded view and activated it. I uploaded Event and then realized I was supposed to do Date first. So I uploaded date, and calendar. Then I went to activate Date and after I check everything it doesn't save...I get a white page instead with the path admin/build/modules. So I thought...remove event and calendar and try again. Same thing. Maybe I created the problem by removing via FTP instead of "uninstalling"?! I hadn't seen that, but figured since I FTP them and they get added, deleting them that way seemed OK to me.
So all my administration functions work EXCEPT I can no longer load the modules page at all. Is there hope for me? What should I do?
Site is at: http://www.criticalmassjazz.com
Thanks,
Sheila
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update
Per someone's suggestion, elsewhere, I've edited MySQL database system table
and changed the status column from a 1 to a 0 for view. Now I'm able to get into the Modules page again. So I went ahead and uninstalled View which is the only thing that came up on the uninstall page.
So...I still need input on WHY I can't do this before I try again. Is the sequence critical? Must I activate each one before FTPing the next? What else could be going wrong? I don't know how to pull together an events calendar if I can't even get all the modules installed.
ALSO... on another note. Now that I see how to go into the SQL database, is there a way for me to capture the actual html code from some of the content I added? Where do I look for that? I found the nodes but I don't see anywhere I can steal my content back from.
Thanks,
Sheila
In short: Memory
You did: http://drupal.org/node/157632
The problem in general -> not enough memory for a hungry module like views
see: http://drupal.org/node/207036
Hope this helps.
P.S: Search "WSOD" for a bunch of similar threads.
This is purely from very bad
This is purely from very bad memory but drupal likely thinks that they're all active even though it can't find them. Those modules have rather 'deeper' hooks than others, particularily when they depend on each other
Drop into your database and go to the system table. You should find each of the modules you had activated previously and there is a field I cannot remember which is either 0 or 1. If it's 1, it's active. Set those to 0 for all of the above modules you just installed then try to get into your site again.
Hope that helps!
Alan
Edit: I posted right after you so you beat me to it. But I think it's due to dependencies. You deleted a module which had an activated module depending on it. Drupal still had them noted as active and expected the dependencies to be there but they weren't. Hence Drupal was very sad and went and had a tantrum.
When I uninstall modules, I just deactivate them all first then delete them.
thanks!
Great info on the memory. I just found where I can capture all my old html content so I'm very happy! I will then explore the memory stuff. This is so helpful. Thank you.