I hope this is true but it finally worked for me after many hours spent installing and reinstalling CKeditor and CKfinder on both Drupal 6 and 7 on more than one site! (yes I am dense)
*** What I FINALLY discovered is that you can not browse images unless "text format" is set to FULL HTML. ***
I do not know if this is an accurate statement or not but I do know that I have actually had CKfinder/editor installed correctly more than once but thought it was not working because I did not have FULL HTML set. I looked and there was no "browse server" button so I assumed the installation failed yet again. ERRRR.
There are many good instructions and videos out there, for instance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzg26YJi2W8 or http://yadadrop.com/drupal-video/ckfinder-file-browser-ckeditor-drupal
so I won't repeat, but what I found as the critical steps are:
-downloand the drupal MODULE ckeditor
- then you must download the actual ckeditor and ckfinder software itself into this drupal container.
- the directory structure is critical -(sites/all)/modules/ckeditor/ckeditor and (sites/all)/modules/ckeditor/ckfinder (follow the screencasts)
- then you must make some changes to the ckfinder config.php AND your settings.php for that drupal instance (follow the screencasts)
- you must manually set permission EVEN FOR USER #1
- you must tell ckeditor to use ckfinder (instead of using IMCE for instance)
- THEN true or false, right or wrong, at least I had to have FULL HTML turned on to see the "browse server" button.
I hope this helps someone and does not send them further astray.
