CKEditor unable to load: console error 403

Hello every one, and thanks in advance for your help. I'm really a Drupal noob but so far I've managed to install it and try it, I think it's wonderful. Today I came across CKEditor, great wysiwyg editor! I've been trying to use it without success. So far I've installed it without problems, following directions found here
http://drupal.org/project/ckeditor.

I can enable and disable it in the modules section of the Drupal admin without warnings or errors and I'm able to change it's settings. The problem is: it won't show up in text areas of any kind (not in filtered nor full HTML ones), despite being configured for these formats. In fact, using Firebug for Firefox, I'm able to see some errors in the console when loading a page that should display the CKEditor:

"NetworkError: 403 Forbidden - http://drupal/sites/all/modules/ckeditor/ckeditor/lang/en.js?t=C3HA5RM"
"NetworkError: 403 Forbidden - http://drupal/sites/all/modules/ckeditor/ckeditor/skins/kama/editor.css?t=C3HA5RM"

Of course I've checked those files exist in that location. I've tried changing their permissions but to no avail, well, I'm not really sure which these should be :roll: .

Everywhere the CKEditor should be loaded I get the same errors, for instance, when editing any of the CKEditor profiles, let's say the Advanced profile for Filtered HTLM (http://drupal/admin/config/content/cked ... t/Advanced) i get those two errors plus this one:

"NetworkError: 403 Forbidden - http://drupal/sites/all/modules/ckeditor/ckeditor/plugins/uicolor/plugin.js?t=C3HA5RM"

I suppose that's caused by the CSS section, where one should be able to see a preview of the CKEditor and when it fails to load, the color picker fails too.

I'm running Drupal 7.14 (default theme) on a OS X Snow Leopard machine, with only two extra modules:
Localization update 7.x-1.0-beta3+1-dev
CKEditor 7.x-1.9

I really love CKEditor, i tried the online demo (http://drupal.ckeditor.com/) and I'd really hate to quit on it, so any help will be much appreciated. Thank you.
PS:I apologize for my terrible English.

Mon, 05/14/2012 - 09:52

mkesicki

Joined: 28/10/2010

Posts: 348

Re: CKEditor unable to load: console error 403

@mikelito ,
it looks that your drupal installation is not configured well. Please check permissions (chmod settings) to CKEditor directories (and files) into sites/all directory. It looks that CKEditor can't read it's files. This is the reason why you see 403 Error. Please check what chmod settings do you have for sites/all/modules/ckeditor directory and it's content.

Mon, 05/14/2012 - 18:10

mikelito

Joined: 12/05/2012

Posts: 3

Re: CKEditor unable to load: console error 403

Hid Michał, thanks for the tip. I checked file permissions as you suggested, I too think the problem has something to do with that, unfortunately I'm not sure what those permissions should be. Here's what they look right now:

permissions for directory: sites/all/modules/ckeditor

drwxrwxrwx@ 20 redarmy  staff    680 May 11 18:49 ckeditor

permissions for the files inside sites/all/modules/ckeditor

drwxrwxrwx@ 20 redarmy  staff    680 May 11 18:49 .
drwxr-xr-x@  6 redarmy  staff    204 May 11 18:49 ..
-rw-rw-rw-@  1 redarmy  staff  12292 May 11 22:05 .DS_Store
-rw-rw-rw-@  1 redarmy  staff  17342 Apr 18 05:33 CHANGELOG.txt
-rw-rw-rw-@  1 redarmy  staff  18092 Sep 17  2011 LICENSE.txt
-rw-rw-rw-   1 redarmy  staff  21325 Apr 18 05:33 README.txt
-rw-rw-rw-   1 redarmy  staff  10521 Apr 18 05:33 TROUBLESHOOTING.txt
-rw-rw-rw-@  1 redarmy  staff   1547 Apr 18 05:33 UPGRADE.txt
drwxrwxrwx@ 27 redarmy  staff    918 May 11 22:05 ckeditor
-rw-rw-rw-@  1 redarmy  staff    519 Apr 18 05:33 ckeditor-rtl.css
-rw-rw-rw-@  1 redarmy  staff   2747 Apr 18 05:33 ckeditor.api.php
-rw-rw-rw-@  1 redarmy  staff   3993 Apr 18 05:33 ckeditor.config.js
-rw-rw-rw-@  1 redarmy  staff   3395 Apr 18 05:33 ckeditor.css
-rw-rw-rw-@  1 redarmy  staff    393 Apr 18 05:41 ckeditor.info
-rw-rw-rw-@  1 redarmy  staff  21173 Apr 18 05:33 ckeditor.install
-rw-rw-rw-@  1 redarmy  staff  20156 Apr 18 05:33 ckeditor.module
-rw-rw-rw-@  1 redarmy  staff   3749 Apr 18 05:33 ckeditor.styles.js
drwxrwxrwx@  6 redarmy  staff    204 May 11 19:35 images
drwxrwxrwx@ 12 redarmy  staff    408 Apr 18 05:33 includes
drwxrwxrwx@  8 redarmy  staff    272 May 11 21:28 plugins

Could it be that the group or the owner is not set correctly? Hope you can shed some light on it. Thanks again for your help.

Mon, 05/14/2012 - 18:56

mikelito

Joined: 12/05/2012

Posts: 3

Solved!

Hi, I've solved my problem. I don't know why the file permissions in ckeditor directory were all messed up but setting them to 755 fixed the problem and the editor is working perfectly now.

chmod -R 755 sites/all/modules/ckeditor/

Thanks Michał for the help.