Gallery 2 Blocks not showing up in Drupal 4.6.3 installation.
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Goobermaster
Joined: 2005-08-15
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Posted: Mon, 2005-09-19 00:29
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Hello - Since I'm a big G2 fan and have been using it for awhile, I've decided to make the move to Drupal as well. Loving it so far. However, I cannot for the life of me make the gallery block show up using walkah's gallery.module. I'm running drupal 4.6.3 and the latest released gallery 2 along with the latest CVS build of gallery.module. Drupal works fine on it's own. Gallery works fine on it's own. I get no errors, but I also get no gallery link showing up or any blocks. I've searched every forum I can think of and have tried all sorts of suggestions, but I can't get this to work. Any ideas? Go to... www.crumpetmonkey.com for drupal and www.crumpetmonkey.com/gallery2 for gallery. The link I have in the block now is one I made myself in drupal. Am I just missing something obvious? I've following the instructions with the gallery.module integration from drupal's site by walkah to the tee. Thanks |
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Have you done all these?
1. Enable the Gallery module here: www.example.com/admin/modules
2. Set your directory here: www.example.com/admin/settings/gallery
3. Enable the Gallery block here: www.example.com/admin/block
Michelle
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Yes I have.
drupal is in my base directory. www.crumpetmonkey.com
gallery is in www.crumpetmonkey.com/gallery2/
I have both the module and hte block enabled in drupal as described. My path for settings/gallery/ is "gallery2/" - no quotes of course.
From all I've read, it seems to me that I should at least have a gallery link and/or block showing up at this point. But alas, no link or block. I have to create my link manually. Any other ideas?
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Do you realize your embedded gallery is at http://www.crumpetmonkey.com/gallery not http://www.crumpetmonkey.com/gallery2?
I'll check this thread later... Baby needs attention.
Michelle
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Yeah - actually I had noticed that, but the non-embedded installation is http://www.crumpetmonkey.com/gallery2/.
I also notice that it is just "gallery" not "gallery2" in the address link on the drupal.gallery site and on Walkah's site as well (although his seems to be down at the moment.)
Are you saying that your gallery integration shows "gallery2" in the address bar?
I'm hoping you're going to tell me something really simple that I just overlooked.
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Sorry, was trying to post quick before taking care of my son and probably should have just waited. I posted that because I didn't know if you realized that your integrated Gallery was working but, duh, you did say you had made your own block, so I guess you realize that. My bad.
The only other thing I can think of is make sure you have the absolute latest version of the module as there has been a lot of changes made recently. Without having admin access to your site, it's hard to look and see if anything looks wrong but you said you did the three things that I would look for...
Maybe one of the devs will see this and can be of more help. I've run through the "is the computer plugged in" kind of checks and it looks like you did everything like you're supposed to, so it sounds like something is screwed up somewhere.
Michelle
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Just thought of one other thing. Try your site with the default theme. It's possible that something in your theme is preventing the block from showing up. If the Gallery block is enabled in the admin/block page, then it's getting to Drupal so maybe something in Drupal is blocking it. My suspect would be the theme as it looks like you've customized it quite a bit.
Michelle
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Thanks for all your thoughts, Michelle.
I've been trying to figure this out all weekend and am having mental blocks as to what to try next. I've tried pretty much every gallery.module CVS available with no luck. Currently I'm running the latest 1.9 version. I even redownloaded and re-installed my "image block" moculde for gallery since it fixed a similar issue for someone else a few months ago.
I have also tried various other "stock" drupal themes. No luck.
I'm on my way home soon and will try bothering Mr. Walker directly, me thinks. Maybe he'll be willing to share some of his expertise if he can see my site.
Anyway - thanks for the efforts.
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Just in case someone stumbles across this - the address in my first post is now my old php-nuke site. I did get the block to work eventually with drupal at www.goobertech.net, but not like I think it's meant to. (No address bars or gallery link block, and only the random picture shows up.) Maybe people are creating their gallery link blocks from scratch or something.
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No, there isn't a link to Gallery in the image block other than clicking on the image. I actually modified mine to add a link to the Gallery as a whole a while back and it wasn't that hard. I've since changed my site design so it isn't needed anymore and my change was long blown away by new editions of the Gallery module, but I'd be happy to figure it out again if you need me to.
Michelle
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I had a very similar issue and just figured out the problem. I had downloaded and installed G2 without a problem and the embedded gallery itself worked if I made my own link, but the image block would never show up. I had failed to realize that the G2 version I had downloaded does not include all the required modules for it to work with Drupal. The "Typical" download package doesn't have the image block module which is required in order for the image block to work in Drupal. This is not really mentioned in any of the documentation I read but it makes sense once you realize it. The solution was to download the full version with all the modules or download the image block module and install it separately. Now I don't know if this will be the solution for everyone but it worked for me. Unfortunately there are still some other issues to contend with... as already mentioned the image block only seems to display random images no matter wwhat you set it for and there is no navigation in the latest CVS for some reason.-hl
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halight: See http://codex.gallery2.org/index.php/Gallery2:How_to_Embed_Gallery2_in_Drupal#I_always_get_.22Random_Photo.22.2C_and_cannot_use_.22Recent_Album.22_or_other_types for a solution to the only getting random photos issue you mention.