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By ratinakage on
I did a clean install of a Drupal page using Fantastico De Luxe on my web host.
It all seems quite nice and I'm trying to work stuff out (I am a beginner). I found a module called latest.module (at this site http://aptgetanarchy.org/drupal/latest) which I uploaded to my modules folder /public_html/drupal/modules/latest/. I then went into my site to the modules page and clicked the link for update.php. It gave me a page not found error.
Any ideas?
Thanks kindly
Guy
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That means the file is
That means the file is probably not there. Look in your Drupal root directory, chances are there is no update.php. Just upload that particular file.
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Fantastico does not inlcude an update.php, this is a fairly good reason to avoid using the fantastico method. Check out the hanbooks section called Drupal Cookbook, for a method designed by nancyw on how to get around this problem.
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Hi,
As VeryMisunderstood says, Fantastico doesn't have much love for Drupal. Fantastico has been called a "recipe for disaster" and it's much better to install Drupal yourself. The installation is much, much easier since Drupal 5.0 included a new web-based installer.
Second, the "Latest" module you found probably wasn't written for Drupal 5.x. You can get the same features plus a lot more with Recent Blocks or (even better) Views.
Finally, contributed modules shouldn't go in your main modules directory. It will be more difficult to upgrade your copy of Drupal when its core modules are mingling with other contributed modules. Try putting your modules in /public_html/drupal/modules/contrib/ or (even better) /public_html/drupal/sites/all/modules
Assuming you have update.php
Check the permissions. I had the same problem with a site transfer which set everything to 777 (yikes!). I have reset update.php to 700 or rwx------ which may or may not be proper, but has worked.
Cheers!
That worked!
Yep, that solved the issue for me. 700 permissions... who would have thunk it.
I believe something happened when I transferred the site from the development environment (where the update.php and authorize.php worked fine) to the stating environment with the web-host (where these files gave a page not found error). Must have been something between the FTP and the Tar'ing of the files, but changing the permissions of those specific .php files fixed the issue. Will spread the word.
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I'd check perms on all files and folder to make sure that there aren't any leftover 777's in the install beyond those that are intended to be like the /files/folder
A solution
One possible solution, which worked for me was
From http://drupal.org/node/1010730