By Cruzun on

I am trying to upload images onto my website, but I am not sure what file path to use? I am using Drupal 6.10 and all the files for the website are on fatcow's web server. Where do I designate the file path to go(do I use drupal file path or fatcow)? I am also having the same problems if I make a new folder for new modules, my drupal admin page does not recognize that I have uploaded new modules even though I have. Do I use the default module file folder? Thanks for the help

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einsteinsboi commented

For your images question, you can tell Drupal where to find and store files under Administer -> Site Configuration -> File System

For the modules, you need to upload them to your sites/all/modules folder. The modules folder may not exist so you'll need to create it. Ideally, you don't want to upload contributed modules to the main modules folder because you want to maintain the separation between core and contributed

hope this helps

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Cruzun commented

Thanks for the reply. Do i set my file system path to the specific module folder in file path, or do I just set it to the general website and then drupal will find the module in the sub file automatically? Thanks

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einsteinsboi commented

For the modules you don't need to set a path. All you have to do is place your modules in the sites/all/modules folder and Drupal will see them

You set the path to where you will upload other files, not Drupal related, but your own files.

Hope that's clearer.

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Cruzun commented

again, thank you very much for your help. I now have got the module thing down. OK, so now where do you place the image files so that ddblock module can find it. I really really thank you very much.

Mike

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einsteinsboi commented

What is your Drupal file path set to? You can check this at Administer > Site configuration > File system

Have you looked at this tutorial?
http://ddblock.myalbums.biz/quick_configuration_in_10_steps

You need to put the path to the folder where your images are in the image settings part of configuring your new ddblock. The path you set in your ddblock needs to be relative to your Drupal file path.

So say your Drupal file path is set to "sites/default/files".
- create a folder in your sites/default/files folder and call it "images"
- then create another folder inside that images folder and call it "ddblock"
- upload your images into the ddblock folder

When you configure your new ddblock, under Images Folder you'll enter the path as images/ddblock

Hope this helps

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Cruzun commented

wow, thank you very much. Is there an email address I can shoot you questions that I have from time to time. You have been a great help.

Thanks again

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einsteinsboi commented

Posting questions in the forums here is always best because other people can give you input and you can learn different ways to do things, and also if someone else has the same problem in the future they can find the answers documented here.

If you do want to contact me directly you can send me a message via my contact form on my profile here and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Also, if you visit my blog and leave a comment on any of my drupal tuts I'll get back to you through the blog or via email.

Glad I could help!!

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