By bmarcel12 on
I have found a contributed theme that I would like to use on my website but am having trouble uploading it to the right place. When I downloaded the theme I got just one file (A .GZ FILE) that my computer couldn't recognize. When I uploaded that to sites/all/themes it didn't show up at all in themes section. I looked at the themes that came with Drupal and they all have multiple files in their folders, is there something else I need to download or is the .gz file zipped or something. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Yes. the .gz file is an
Yes. the .gz file is an archive like .zip - you need to "unzip it".
Try something like AlZip from http://www.altools.com
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gz is zip
a .gz file is the more linux and open source equivalent to a .zip file in the windows world. You have to either upload it then extract it on the server, or extract it on your computer and then upload the directory it makes. You can open the file with anything that you use to open a zip file with - it just won't be set to open them by default.
As far as the location goes:
/sites/all/themes
You can change the "all" directory should you have a multi-site set up.
Theme not showing up
Thanks for your help I was able to unzip and upload the files and folders to sites/all/themes but the theme is still not showing up in my admin section. What might I be doing wrong?
Where specifically are you
Where specifically are you looking? If you're looking in the same spot as modules, there's your problem. Look at:
admin/build/themes
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Your directory structure should look something like this:
sites/all/themes/*folder for theme*/*theme name*.info
for a certain file, which is all Drupal actually looks for (and the image linked through that) when listing the various themes out.
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Next thing to check would be the version of the theme. If there is no *.info file, then its not a compatible with a Drupal 6.x site.