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I can't find documentation anywhere. I FTP'd the files, now what? I really need step-by-step instructions. Please, if anyone can help, I would really appreciate it!!!

Also, I'd like to install a module that will allow me to have a section on the site where users must log in. Which module(s) do I need?

Up top under Documentation is the Users Handbook with install instructions... this is a direct link to it...

http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... ck_Install

I thought that was the general install for the cms. I'm wanting to install one of the modules. Is it the same process? That doesn't make sense that it would be.

Is the self registration the module I need for the login thing?

Also, some of the module files are xml and tar.gz. What do I do with those? 

Can someone please help me with this? I'd like to install the seflreg module, but I don't exactly know how. I'm not familiar with the file type. It seems as though there should be installation guides for each module, but I can't find them. Can someone please help?

How about this one?
http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... g_a_module

slloyd wrote: Is the self registration the module I need for the login thing?

Selfreg allows (front-end) users to register themselfs. See also Front End Users and Custom Content.

Thank you, thank you, thank you! That was huge help!

BUT, now I have this problem. I checked the permission of the Modules folder and it is set to 777, but I'm still getting this error message:

Could not create a file (permissions problem?) /var/www/vhosts/preschoolrock.com/subdomains/songs/httpdocs/modules/SelfRegistration/templates/userlist.tpl


Any ideas as to what may be wrong?

When you are installing a module through XML (which is in general easier than installing from .zip as it takes less actions, it does need for permissions to be set correctly on and inside the modules folder) the webserver process creates the module directories and extracts the file (and needs persmissions to do so). If there is a modules/SelfRegistration folder present on the server already, delete it or make sure permissions are set so that the webserver can overwrite it and all of the files and folders inside.

I actually had to create the folder myself so it would let me change the permissions. So I managed to get it to accept it, but now I guess I need to install CMSMailer and FrontEndUsers, right?

Thanks so much for your help!

Now I'm getting this error message while trying to install FrontEndUsers 1.0.0 (as it requests):

DTD Version missing or incompatible in the XML file

slloyd wrote: Now I'm getting this error message while trying to install FrontEndUsers 1.0.0 (as it requests):

DTD Version missing or incompatible in the XML file

It means you're using an XML file meant for cmsmadesimpl-1.0.x on 0.13 (or the other way around).

I'm using the most current version of cms. So how do I fix it? Do I need to install an older version of cms? Or a new version of the FrontEndUser? I'm so confused!

slloyd wrote: Now I'm getting this error message while trying to install FrontEndUsers 1.0.0 (as it requests):

slloyd wrote: I'm using the most current version of cms. So how do I fix it?

The latest version of FrontEndUsers is 1.1.1, try that.
The xml installs fine on the latest version of cms (1.0.2).

Hope that helps,
D

I've experienced the same error mess. and then looked and everything worked fine... strange 

Now my entire page looks bizarre. I don't know what happened. All the formatting is screwed up. The page is white with an outline list of everything. 

slloyd wrote: Now my entire page looks bizarre. I don't know what happened. All the formatting is screwed up. The page is white with an outline list of everything. 

That sounds like an overloaded server that is making the stylesheet not load. Try uninstalling some modules. If you have a URL of the site, that would be useful in trying to find out what is wrong.