Unable to connect to FTP server...no errors given

By Eolmornedhel on 4 Oct 2010 at 10:47 UTC

Hi all, I've just decided for a number of reasons to install Drupal 7 and I am loving it (as a complete novice I find it much better than v6 or Commons).

However, I have so far just one problem, uploading a theme or module doesn't work. I have a properly configured FTP server, which I can access via FTP client and even via Firefox. When I provide my server connection details (in authorize.php) it just keeps coming back asking me to resupply them, no errors at all are given.

I am using PHP v 5.3.2 on Ubuntu 10.04 with ftp modules enabled.

Regards
Andrew

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Hi, Andrew I'm not really

Ejstrup commented 4 October 2010 at 11:04

Hi, Andrew

I'm not really sure you should be messing with authorize.php.

Just simply upload your themes to sites/all/themes/themename and modules to sites/all/modules/modulename using your FTP client.

Hi Ejstrup, thanks for the

Eolmornedhel commented 4 October 2010 at 11:13

Hi Ejstrup, thanks for the prompt reply. When you want to install a module you are given 2 choices, "install from a url" and "Upload a module or theme archive to install", the second of these opens up the authorize.php page for you to enter your ftp details, so this is default behaviour, not messing ;-)

As you suggest I have manually copied the theme to the sites/all/themes/themename folder and Drupal 7 sees it just fine.

Unless someone has any ideas why ftp isn't working, I'll be patient and wait and see if it works in the final release.

Thanks Again.

Oh, yeah, you're right. I

Ejstrup commented 4 October 2010 at 11:20

Oh, yeah, you're right.

I hadn't noticed that Drupal 7 feature ;-)

I hope they get the release

Eolmornedhel commented 4 October 2010 at 11:51

I hope they get the release version of this out soonish. To my mind the difference between version 6 and 7 is like the difference between Windows 3.1 and Windows 7 ;-)