By dottiej77 on

Hey everyone! I need a way to put up a simple image gallery on my Drupal 6 site. However because of bandwith restrictions, my images will be hosted on a different host server. Is there an image/gallery module that will allow me to do this?

Thanks in advance for your responses.

Btw, I'm currently using Drupal 6.4 but will be upgrading to the latest version of Drupal 6 in a few days.

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aitala commented

There are modules which will link to images on Flickr, etc. ... take a look at http://drupal.org/project/emfield

Eric

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dottiej77 commented

Thanks for your response, Eric.

I have some additonal questions...

According to the link you posted, the Embedded Image Field module "currently supports Flickr, Imageshack, Picassa and Photobucket images". My images will not be on a 3rd party image hosting site. They will simply be in a folder at another domain I own.

Also, from the description it is unclear if using the module will easily put my images into a photo gallery format(with thumbnails), or if I would have to install an additonal module that would work with CCK Embedded Image Field.

I currently don't have CCK installed. I know is very powerful and is recommended for a lot of things, but i was hoping to find a more simple solution for now, as i need to do this in a hurry and am afraid to make major changes in my site that might effect performance, etc.

Do you still recommend this as a quick solution, or do you have other suggestions? Thanks!

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aitala commented

Ah... hm.. tricky. I think you may have a difficult time...

I would say that you may need to use something like CCK&Views to construct a Gallery/Image content type that contains URLs (or IMG tags) that point to the images on the other server.

Thumbnails may need to be housed on the other server as well because in most circumstances folks use Imagecache to create thumbs which would be stored in Drupal's files directory on your 'main' server.

The only things that comes close to what you want is http://drupal.org/project/fast_gallery but I am not sure about the externally housed images.

Unfortunately, there are really few 'full service' gallery modules for Drupal - there are a number of them, but none do everything that Gallery2, for example, does. And while the Gallery2 - Drupal bridge module works OK, I'd prefer to keep everything in Drupal.

Eric

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dottiej77 commented

Thanks again for the response. I'll take a closer look at fast gallery and see if that might work. (Keeping my fingers crossed)

Hmm... I remember reading something about Gallery2. It's a totally different gallery product that can bridge to Drupal?

Dottie

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aitala commented

Yes... http://gallery.menalto.com/ and http://drupal.org/project/gallery

Eric

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dottiej77 commented

I tried fast gallery, but it does seem to require the images be on the same server. I'm not thrilled about going outside of Drupal for a solution, so if anyone has any other ideas let me know. Otherwise I'll look into Gallery2 I guess.

Thanks again, Eric.

Dottie

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dottiej77 commented

Now I'm getting conflicting reports as to if it's possible to run Gallery2 on a different server as my drupal installation.

The documentation on the drupal gallery project seems to be saying they must be installed in the same directory unless you create a "symlink" from that directory to the other. I'm really not sure how to create a symlink. And it's not clear if this symlink is just for separate directories or if it would work with installations on different servers.

This seems to get more and more complicated... any help would be appreciated.

Dottie

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aitala commented

Symlinks do not work across servers unless they somehow share discs like using NFS, GFS, etc.

Eric

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