[support] Ckeditor not visible by drupal, the dripal version doesn't work

[berliner]

Hi Augustine,

here are better installation instructions for ckeditor:
http://docs.cksource.com/CKEditor_for_Drupal/Open_Source/Drupal_7/Installation

Also consider using drush: https://github.com/drush-ops/drush

berliner

On 10/9/2013 7:08 PM, A. F. Cano wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> New user here.  I've installed drupal7 (7.14-2) as a debian package on wheezy.
> Then, read lots of docs and tried to follow the tutorial here:
> 
> https://drupal.org/node/1924660
> 
> It says to install new modules, so I successfully installed
> 
> admin_menu-7.x-3.0-rc4.tar.gz
> imce-7.x-1.7.tar.gz
> 
> into modules/contrib (I had to create contrib).  With the same procedure
> I installed
> 
> ckeditor_4.2.1_full.zip
> 
> but whereas the other two became visible to drupal and can be enabled,
> ckeditor never shows up.
> 
> The above tutorial says "not to use the drupal version", so I downloaded
> the one from ckeditor.com (the home page of ckeditor).
> 
> If I point the browser to
> 
> http://localhost/drupal7/modules/contrib/ckeditor/samples/
> 
> the page comes up just fine.
> 
> Of course I've googled the problem, but all the pages are rather old (2009
> or so and some refer to fckeditor).  None of the suggestions found there
> have made any difference.
> 
> I also tried the Modules->Install new module within drupal and entered the
> zip file, but it failed, claiming that the package didn't have any *.info
> files.
> 
> Then, against the advice in the tutorial, I downloaded the drupal version,
> which is (according to the size and version number) a very minimal sub-set
> and/or obsolete compared to the 4.2.1_full version.
> 
> 1300736 Oct  9 16:15 ckeditor_4.2.1_full.zip
>  242724 Oct  9 18:48 ckeditor-7.x-1.13.tar.gz
> 
> The latter does have an *.info file and installed properly (it is visible).
> So, either the above tutorial needs to say that using the old/minimalist
> ckeditor from drupal is what should be done, or additional instructions
> need to be given to make the version from ckeditor.com work.
> 
> After all that, I thought the drupal/old version would work, but I get this:
> 
>  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.
> 
> Of course, the version this message tells me to go download is the one I had
> downloaded in the first place and wasn't visible to drupal.
> 
> HELP! what am I missing?  Any idea what needs to be done?
> 
> Augustine
>