Mambo 4.5.1a problem (Gallery seems to be inside Mambo, etc)

Here's a weird problem. I have Gallery 1.4.4-pl4 embedded in a Mambo 4.5.1a install with no problems as long as I'm not logged into the front end as an admin. If I'm logged in, here's what happens:

Any function that does NOT open a pop-up: works.

Any function that OPENS a pop-up (ex. photo properties or rename album) works ONCE, but after that I get "
Gallery seems to be inside Mambo, but we couldn't get the necessary info". Unfortunately, that includes not being able to press, say, "Rename" on the rename album pop-up (it doesn't rename, just gives me that message). If I navigate AWAY from the current gallery page (like, to my main index page) and return, it'll work again ONCE. Example: I click "photo properties" logged into the front end as an admin. I see the pop-up. I close that and click "photo-properties" again, I see a pop-up with "
Gallery seems to be inside Mambo, but we couldn't get the necessary info" until I navigate away from the current photo and return. Then I can press "photo-properties" again ONCE and it'll work. Repeat.

Now, there is a workaround. I can log into Mambo as admin (http://www.myhost.com), then enter the direct URL to gallery (basically, pull it up as a standalone OUTSIDE Mambo using http://www.myhost.com/gallery) and do everything successfully. That tells me that the session variables are set properly since Gallery still knows I'm an admin.

If I am NOT logged in, photo properties (the only thing I remember that opens a pop-up available to non-registered users) ALWAYS works fine every time.

I can't easily give full admin rights to the site, but I may be able to create an account and an album with rights that will allow this problem to be seen if absolutely necessary. What debugging info can I give to help diagnose this problem myself?

Thanks... I guess I'll live with the workaround until 1.5 is ready. Or G2 has embedding support

I run Gallery 1.4.4-pl4 with Mambo 4.5.1a and it works?

I get that error occasionally but if I refresh it is fine

I had to change the admin password for the gallery to match that of mambo to get it to work but otherwise (ok I have a session issue see me other post) it works..

Disabled your cookies?

The CVS version is definitely much more compatible with Gallery. I specifically tested every page, in virtually every scenario I could find that would cause problems, and ended up rewriting a good bit of the code that handles passing the Mambo authentication information around.

If you're getting the "inside Mambo" message, it's almost certain that your cookie isn't getting to the server for some reason, especially if it works in IE.

I added a snippet of code to the 'mambo' case of the embedded switch statement in the CVS version of init.php so I could view all session variables (using print_r($_SESSION) ). Any time that I see the error, there are 2 gallery sessions, one that has the [mambo] key, and one that doesn't. Any time a pop-up WORKS, I only see one gallery session. It looks like session_start() gives the pop-up a new session occasionally rather than the existing one. Just thought I'd share.

OK, using single window extensions (the Tabbrowsing Extensions extension or the hidden single window mode in Firefox 1.0) causes the problem in 1.4.4pl4. Disabling single window mode by uninstalling TBE or turning off the "Force links that open new windows to open in:" option in Firefox fixes the session problems in 1.4.4pl4, but hopefully this can be fixed in Gallery, or at least in G2. Doing pop-up tests in Mambo (creating a menu item that generates a pop-up window) works fine in single window mode in Firefox, PHP sessions work properly, etc, so it doesn't seem to be a Firefox problem.

However, the current CVS version of Gallery 1 (updated today at ~3:00 MST) doesn't work in Mambo at all in any browser. ALL pop-ups in any browser have the multiple session problems on multiple computers at my job. Changing cookie settings to the least restrictive possible doesn't help, using IE vs Firefox doesn't help.

I'm fully aware that a PHP or server misconfiguration might cause this problem. My research hasn't revealed anything in my configuration that could be causing this, but I'm open to suggestions.

YAY!

I was starting to get worried that there was really something serious wrong that I was just unable to see. I use Firefox and TBE *constantly* and I'd never seen a problem...

I'm glad you figured it out, but I'm even more glad that it works.

OK, I am running the latest gallery 1.5 cvs in mambo 4.5.1a, and whenever I am logged in as a user with editing rights and try to change any properties I get the same popup people were complaining about earlier in this post. As they found, it only seems to happen in firefox, not IE, but I have checked on two different pcs here and it happens on both. Any ideas on how to fix it?

Hi, I am quite a newbie and was wondering how you did this.... i.e. match up the url configuration (http and www). I did find that when I entered the http url I didn't come up with the error message, however if I put in my url with www it did. The url I use is the www one.
Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Using Gallery v1.4.4-pl6 w/ Mambo v4.5.2

Okay, I'm completely lost. I have it set up correctly as far as I can tell and I'm getting the same popup error. Here's my setup:

Mambo:
Absolute Path: /home/MYHOMEDIR/public_html
Live Site: http://www.MYSITE.com

Gallery config:
$gallery->app->photoAlbumURL = "/components/com_gallery";
$gallery->app->albumDirURL = "/albums";

Now, I know there's no matching problem because I'm using relative URLs. I tried replacing them with static URLs (using www.MYSITE.com); no dice. What else can I try?

One thing I noticed was that if I go to:
http://www.MYSITE.com/components/com_gallery
directly, it actually redirects to:
http://MYSITE.com/components/com_gallery

This could be an .htaccess problem, right? Any idea how I could fix that?

Thanks,
Zephyr

I'm stuck with the error message too. I ended up hard-coding the globals in the mambo case in init.php. Then most of the things seemed to work, except adding pictures, then I switched to Gallery Remote to do that. Also, when I add comments, using the above hack, another user is used as author for the comment.

I'm sure it's a session problem, and I'm just so close to a final working version that I really want it to work. However, reading all the posts from people with the same problem, gives me the impression it may be harder to solve than I thought.

I'm using:
Gallery 1.5.1
Mambo 4.5.2