Downloading and Installing a Module
from Drupal.org with Joe Shindelar In this tutorial,
we'll learn how to download and install a
module from Drupal.org using the user interface
or by using Drush. By the end of this tutorial, you'll know how to
download and install the contributed
Admin Toolbar module, which allows you
to easily browse through the administration
section of your website. Before you get
started with this tutorial, you'll want to make sure that
you know what modules are and how to find modules
that you want to install. If you want to install modules
via the user interface, the core Update Manager module
must be installed. And if you plan to use Drush, you'll need to make sure
that you have Drush installed. See the written
version of this tutorial for links to each of
these prerequisite tutorials. Note, you can use
the administrative interface or Drush to install
a contributed module. If you are installing
a custom module rather than
a contributed module, or if you see a message saying,
"Installing modules and themes requires FTP
access to your server," or if for some reason
the following steps don't work to download and
unpack the module files, follow the steps in the Manually Installing a
Module or Theme tutorial. If you're installing
a contributed module with external dependencies that
are managed by Composer, follow the steps
for downloading in the
Using Composer tutorial. In previous
versions of Drush, you could use drush dl to
download a module to your site. drush dl has been
removed as a command. Instead, use the
manual installation process or Composer. See the written
version of this tutorial for links to
those instructions. First, we're going to look at using the
administrative interface. On the Admin Toolbar
project page on Drupal.org, or that of whichever
module you want to install, scroll to the Downloads section
at the bottom of the page. Here, copy the address
of the tar.gz link. Then on your site, in the
Manage Administrative menu, click on Extend. From the Extend page, click Install new module. In the field
Install from a URL, paste the value that you copied
from the module's project page, and then click
the Install button. This downloads the files to the modules
directory for your site. Once that's completed, click Enable newly added modules. This will take you
back to the Extend page. If you used the
manual upload procedure, you'll be
starting with this step and reach the Extend page by using the Manage
Administrative menu and navigating to Extend. Locate and check the box for
the Admin Toolbar module. Then click on Install
to turn on the new module. Once the process is complete, you'll see a message indicating that the
module has been enabled. If you want to use Drush
to install the module, first find the project name for
the module you want to install, which is the last segment of
the module's project page URL. For example,
if the project page URL is
Drupal.org/project/admin_toolbar, admin_toolbar is the
project name that we need. Download the module
using either the steps in Manually Downloading
a Module or Theme files, or Using Composer to
Download and Update Files. After you have
downloaded the module, you can use Drush to
install or enable it with drush en for enable, and the name of the project
that you would like to enable. When prompted, answer yes
if you would like to continue. Once that's complete,
you should see a message that tells you that the module,
admin_toolbar, was enabled successfully. In this tutorial,
we downloaded and installed a module using
the administrative interface provided by the
Upgrade Manager module, and, alternatively,
using the Drush command.
