By fpaterra on

I have downloaded and installed a number of modules in my Drupal 6.14 installation but they do not show up in the modules page.

I unzip/tar them to .../sites/all/modules which places them each in their own named directory (.../sites/all/modules/FCKeditor for example) and nothing new shows up even though I visit the modules page multiple times and clear my cache.

If I copy the contents of the module directory up to the ../sites/all/modules directory directly then the modules DO show up and some of them work. Others cause the modules page to stop working once I enable them.

I checked the permissions of the various module's directories as suggest in another forum post and they are all 755 so that seems right. Any ideas? What am I doing wrong?

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jerome72’s picture

jerome72 commented

Check admin/reports/dblog

It should contain useful information

Regards

fpaterra’s picture

fpaterra commented

Thanks for the reply Jerome. I could not find anything in the logs. I tried enabling and the CCK module, which causes me to get a blank page when I hit Save Configuration and then switching it back but nothing is logged.

Other ideas?

Grayside’s picture

Grayside commented

When in doubt, move all the modules outside your drupal directory and add them back one at a time. When the page breaks again, you've just touched a broken module.

fpaterra’s picture

fpaterra commented

There are two issues here and perhaps I should separate them.

Issue 1 is that the modules are not seen when they are placed in .../sites/all/modules, only when I copy all of their files directly into .../sites/all/modules. What would be causing that?

Issue 2 is that when I get the modules to be seen, some of them when enabled cause the page returned to be completely blank. I suspect this is because the files are in the wrong place but I don't really know. They are in the wrong place however so that they can be seen and enabled.

Help!!!

Grayside’s picture

Grayside commented

Have you checked the file/folder permissions? Are they executable and readable by the webserver?

fpaterra’s picture

fpaterra commented

Yes. I chmoded the entire directory structure under .../sites to 777. Still no joy.