By abjx on

I have followed all of the instructions to install the theme settings and skinr modules and the simply modern theme, but none of them show up on my administration page as an option to be enabled. Can anyone help?

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hershel commented

You put the modules into sites/all/modules ? and the theme into sites/all/themes? Each in its own directory so that you have, for example a directory called sites/all/modules/skinr?

To be 100% clear, the sites directory you should NOT have created. It should already be there and have one directory default, meaning sites/default. Correct?

And are you logged in as the id #1 user?

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abjx commented

In my installation (through Bluefish Hosting) there is nothing in the sites/all folder. There is a large directory called Drupal, and within that there are multiple folders, including Modules and Themes. All of the default modules and themes are in those folders and they work properly. I put the new ones in those same folders, but no luck.

So one path, for example, is /public_html/drupal/modules/aggregator. The ones I added are /public_html/drupal/modules/skinr, etc. I did it exactly the way the default ones are.

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mhm commented

Move them to sites/all/modules and sites/all/themes
This may or may not be your problem, but when it comes time to update Drupal core, it makes things much easier. So start there.

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abjx commented

Just tried that, now the whole site doesn't work. Will have to move them back.

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hershel commented

> So one path, for example, is /public_html/drupal/modules/aggregator. The ones I added are /public_html/drupal/modules/skinr, etc. I did it exactly the way the default ones are.

The correct location for that would be

/public_html/drupal/sites/all/modules/skinr

The /public_html/drupal/modules/ directory is intended only for core modules and you shouldn't put anything there, nor take anything away.

Try to put the core back where it goes and the add-on modules as I said and let us know.

But it does sound like something is odd because even thought it's not strictly correct, it should WORK with modules in /public_html/drupal/modules/

Be sure you are using user #1 and try clearing your caches, just in case.

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abjx commented

I did everything you said with no luck. I am starting to wonder if my hosting service has something to do with it. I really don't understand what could have happened since I use Drupal at work on the company's server and everything works fine.

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hershel commented

That is potentially one possibility. Can you ask them to examine the error logs?

There is also a chance that this is a file permissions issue. If Apache has no rights to execute the relevant files then they won't appear on the list of modules/themes. Can you check that or ask your host?

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chrismsthomas commented

OK, this sounds completely untechnical but it turns out that the problem was the seemingly insignificant fact that the names of my Themes and Modules folders had capital letters whereas they only work in lower case. So try that.