Gallery2 module: Is this really all it does?

the photo album is nice, but kind of bulky. There's really no need on my website to have each image as it's own node. I really would just like some way to link a gallery of images to a drupal node. I've recently checked out Gallery v1, and it seems a bit easier to use than the beta v2. Drupal integration would be nice, like having the ability to upload new images to a gallery from within drupal, but otherwise, I think I'm just going to have to throw something together here, maybe use the image upload code from the htmlarea module.

I think that was a good way to do it and have done the same at my site. But I noticed that you had modified the look of gallery2 and made it look more like your primery site. How did you do that?

Please follow the help on 'Directory Settings' and check the example which suits your installation, for me Example 1 worked for errors just like yours and the case of Memory has been settled.

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Directory Settings
"URI of Gallery2" is the URI of the Gallery2 standalone location. Path from docroot to the directory main.php is located. Protocol / host name are both optional. Examples: /gallery2/, /sub/gallery2/, http://photos.example.com/, www.example.com/photos/main.php
"Location of Gallery2" is the path of your gallery2 installation, either absolute (starts with "/") or relative to your Drupal installation directory. Normally this is auto-detected, but in case this fails you can turn off auto-detection and manually enter a value.
"Embed URI" is the URI needed to access Gallery2 through Drupal. This will end in '?q=gallery' (non-clean URLs) or 'gallery' (clean URLs). Normally this is auto-detected, but in case this fails you can turn off auto-detection and manually enter a value.
Some examples:

Example 1: If your directory structure and website structure is
• Drupal dir: /var/www/web/html/
• Gallery dir: /var/www/web/html/gallery2/
• Website URL: http://www.example.com
• Standalone Gallery2 URL: http://www.example.com/gallery2/
• Then
- "URI of Gallery2" = "/gallery2/" or "http://www.example.com/gallery2/"
- "Location of Gallery2" = "gallery2/" or "/var/www/web/html/gallery2/"
- "Embed URI" = "?q=gallery" or "http://www.example.com/?q=gallery"

Example 2: If your directory structure and website structure is
• Drupal dir: /var/www/web/html/drupal/
• Gallery dir: /var/www/web/html/gallery2/
• Website URL: http://www.example.com/drupal
• Standalone Gallery2 URL: http://www.example.com/gallery2/
• Then
o "URI of Gallery2" = "/gallery2/" or "http://www.example.com/gallery2/"
o "Location of Gallery2" = "../gallery2/" or "/var/www/web/html/gallery2/"
o "Embed URI" = "/drupal/?q=gallery" or "http://www.example.com/drupal/?q=gallery"

Example 3: If your directory structure and website structure is
• Drupal dir: /var/www/web/html/drupal/
• Gallery dir: /var/www/web/html/someotherdir/gallery2/
• Website URL: http://www.example.com/
• Standalone Gallery2 URL: http://www.anotherexample.com/gallery2/
• Then
o "URI of Gallery2" = "http://www.anotherexample.com/gallery2/"
o "Location of Gallery2" = "/var/www/web/html/someotherdir/gallery2/"
o "Embed URI" = "/drupal/?q=gallery" or "http://www.example.com/drupal/?q=gallery"

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Susej

I can't really tell you about all the users. I only use my gallery2 with two roles : admin and others. For example, I have not try if a logged user can create his own gallery.

You can install g2 and g1 on the same server, so you could give it a try.

I am a newbie to both these products but I've got a seamless link working on my site. You need to click on the random image to see the seamless link in operation.

These are the broad steps to do it:
Instal Drupal (I use version 4.6)
Instal Gallery2
- this should be installed inside Drupal
- eg www.your-site.com/gallery2
- If you need to move your Gallery2 inside Drupal there are instructions on how to do it on the Gallery2 site
Download and instal the Gallery module of Drupal
Activate the Gallery module in Drupal by going to Administer / Modules and ticking Gallery
Go to Administer / Blocks and put the Gallery block on your front page, either right or left side

You must go into admin mode of your Gallery2 site (not Drupal) and instal the ImageBlock module. I didn't have this installed; it took me a couple of days to figure out that I needed it

When a new user is created in Drupal it automatically creates the same user in G2 and passes all the info (name, password etc) to G2 so that it includes it in its database. Password changes etc through Drupal will change the G2 info. Note that you have to go through Drupal to do this, not G2. (this bit by kiz_0987)

I hope that I haven't missed anything important or got things around the wrong way!

Now after all that +ve karma, I have 2 questions:

The Image Block on my site ALWAYS shows a random image. I have changed the selection in the gallery module configuration options but my change doesn't stick; it always reverts to Random Image. How can I have, say, a Daily Image?

I would like the image in the gallery block to link to the top level (root) of my gallery. Does anyone know how to do this?

The link to my Photo Album in my links on the left hand side always starts my gallery unembedded. How can I have a link that starts my gallery embedded? (if I get a solution to the above problem then this one disappears!)