Ive tried for 2 whole days, and I still cannot get fckeditor working within drupal. This is the most frustrating thing I've ever had to do in my 4 years of system administration.
The lowdown:
1. downloaded fckeditor module, put it in modules/ folder
2. activated module in admin->modules
Here's where it gets tricky..
If i use "modules/fckeditor/lib/" as fckeditors base path, it just shows a bunch of broken images and uncssed text in the textarea, and the admin overview page shows a bunch of 404's when it tries to goto:
"/modules/fckeditor/lib//editor/modules/fckeditor/lib/editor/skins/silver/toolbar/button.image.gif not found"
so i figrued it was the trailing slash on the base path, so i take it out...
base path is now "modules/fckeditor/lib"
Same exact thing, it shows a bunch of text just floating there with alot of broken images, you take a look at the 404's they now point to:
"modules/fckeditor/lib/editor/modules/fckeditor/libeditor/skins/silver/fck_contextmenu.css"
notice the "libeditor" directory, its supposed to be lib/editor...
It seems that someplaces need the trailing slash, and some other places dont for this to work. I tried multiple CVS versions, and still no dice, no amount of hackery can fix this problem. there are 2 threads on just this subject, but with no definite answer
threads:
http://drupal.org/node/16258
http://drupal.org/node/16535