I just created a new drupal 7 site and have had significant difficulty installing the ckeditor. I have another regularly used drupal 6 site with the old fckeditor and I really need to get this working on my new site. I have spent several days on the forums trying every possible solution to the problems of installing the new ckeditor. I have finally got it installed on my website without it showing any error messages, it appears in the modules list and is enabled but it is not listed in the permissions page or in Configuration and does not show up when I try to create content. Any ideas would be helpful. (I have don the dev version tried it in libraries and modules : site/all/... and I have tried a very complicated work around that caused me to loose most of the functionality that I wanted).

should I/can I just drop drupal 7 and install drupal 6 with the old FCKeditor?

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mkesicki commented

Please follow instructions about installing CKEditor in drupal: http://docs.cksource.com/CKEditor_for_Drupal#Drupal_7_2.
Please check if you followed all steps described in manual.
FCKeditor module is really old and only security fixes are added to it so you should use CKEditor for drupal module.

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chantelleanderson commented

Thank you for your response, but I have tried this. It still is telling me to put it in the place I already have it.

"The CKEditor component is not installed correctly. Please go to the CKEditor homepage in order to download the latest version. After that you must extract the files to the sites/all/modules/ckeditor/ckeditor or sites/all/libraries/ckeditor directory and make sure that the sites/all/modules/ckeditor/ckeditor/ckeditor.js or sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/ckeditor.js file exists. Refer to the README.txt file for more information.
Warning messageIf you have CKEditor already installed, edit the CKEditor Global Profile and update the CKEditor path."

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mkesicki commented

Did you downloaded CKEditor library from: http://ckeditor.com/download and uploaded (after extract) into sites/all/modules/ckeditor or sites/all/libraries/ckeditor directory as described in mentioned message #2 . Please check if you have ckeditor.js file in one of mentioned path.

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chantelleanderson commented

Yes downloaded and extracted the drupal module in sites / all / modules then downloaded and extracted the ckeditor to the siltes/all/modules/ckeditor. Doing it this way results in no error messages: on my site I can enable the ckeditor but not set up permissions etc (it does not work).
I have also tried to upload and extract the ckeditor file to sites/all/module/ckeditor/ckeditor (this is where there is a read me file saying to put it here). This results in the warning message I posted above.
In both processes I end up with the ckeditor.js in the files. And, neither way results in a functioning ckeditor.
I really appreciate your help on this!

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mkesicki commented

To summarize:
you have module files installed in sites/all/modules/ckeditor directory and CKEditor library files (and directories) in sites/all/modules/ckeditor/ckeditor ? In this way sites/all/modules/ckeditor/ckeditor/ckeditor.js path exists and is readable? Do you see any other errors in admin status report page or in Firebug (Firefox addon) console ?

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Diogenes commented

@chantel

A few tips:

/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor is the best location for the CKEditor library. I use CKEditor and CKFinder and I really like both, though a few issues remain.

/site/all/modules/ckeditor is the proper location for the ckeditor-wysiwyg module.

Disable the ckeditor-wysiwyg module and the wysiwyg module if you have the latter installed (two very different and very incompatible modules). Uninstall both. Delete the ckeditor library from sites/all/modules/ckeditor/ckeditor directory if it exists or move it to /sites/all/libraries Then enable the just the ckeditor-wysiwyg module again.

You then have all kinds of configuration options. Both /admin/config/content/ckeditor and /admin/config/content/formats have to be configured; set an editor config and a format config for each role (admin, editor, etc).

The latest ckeditor version should figure out on it's own where where the library is.

Hope this helps.

-Dio

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chantelleanderson commented

Thanks you very much for your help: got it working now!!

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mkesicki commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)