[support] New drupal administrator - can't find Site Building -> Modules

[Chris G]

On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 12:41:55PM -0400, adept techlists - kazar wrote:
> On 7/10/11 12:08 PM, Chris G wrote:
> > I have just moved and taken over the administration of a Drupal (6.16)
> > web site.  It's all working OK but, among other things, there are a
> > number of modules clamouring for security updates.
> >
> > I've read around the documentation and I think I can see the basics of
> > how to do it (I have shell access to the hosting site which makes things
> > relatively easy). However there is one rather fundamental problem (or at
> > least that's the way it looks to me at the moment), there is no
> > Administer ->  Site Building ->  Modules page.  I have the other
> > Administer ->  Site Building pages, it's just the Modules one that is
> > missing.
> >
> > Can anyone point me in the right direction to fix this please.
> >
> 
> are you logged in as User 1 (the site administrator's account). If you 
> are logged in with any other User ID it's possible your permissions are 
> preventing you from seeing that page?

I was logged in as myself (who should have administration rights), I
just tried the first account 'admin' and got to see a different set of
pages under Administer ->  Site Building, but still no modules.


>                                           As an experiment, try going to 
> http://www.example.com//#overlay=admin/modules (for Drupal 7) or 
> http://ade.pt/admin/build/modules (for Drupal 6 ... probably the same 
> for Drupal 5). What do you see?
> 
Yes, that takes me to the Modules page, thank you!

-- 
Chris Green