Need help!!! Struggling with website-integration / embedding. Only pictures for public.

I have been struggling for days, too, trying to embed g2 into my web site, so I am certainly no expert. However, your desire (as stated at the bottom of your posting) to have a non-public admin page and a public page with limited access is already built into g2 using the admin log in, isn't it? It sounds like you want to have two separate installations, but they would not be synchronized, according to my understanding.

There is a way of preventing people from looking on your site while you are updating or working with it. Look at FAQ 1.9 on this page: http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:FAQ#How_do_I_prevent_users_from_accessing_my_site_during_maintenance_or_upgrades.3F

As for copying or moving g2 to a different folder, the copy or move feature of file manager at your web host site should accomplish this. If it is not, perhaps you could make the transfer through your ftp application, such as filezilla. If that doesn't work, could you download the entire g2 to your computer and then upload it again to the public_html folder on your web host site?

I have been trying to embed using the php file at this site: http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:How_to_visually_embed_G2_in_your_own_website_using_embedded_mode

It says to "Next you will need to check the paths at the top of the file to make sure they are correct for your installation of gallery2 and the location of your gallery2embedded.php file." However, that is all it gives. I have searched the Internet and the g2 site and still can't figure out how to fill in the: embed path, g2uri, login Redirect and embed uri the php file requires, so I can't successfully embed it. Does anyone have an idea? Any help would be appreciated.

I created a simple embed page to get you started.
you'll find it here, it is commented throughout for simplicity.
-s
FlashYourWeb and Your Gallery

well, you did not place galleryindex.php in your site's root(http://photorichards.com), you placed it in http://photorichards.com/gallery2/
move it outside gallery2

you only need a simple text editor to edit this file, and lines are counted as lines, instructions and all.
you should not have to edit lines 3 & 4 if you move the file out of gallery2 to your site's root.

-s
FlashYourWeb and Your Gallery

although it does show http://www.photorichards.com/galleryindex.php
if you want this to be your default page, rename it to index.php, and change the one instance of /galleryindex.php? to /index.php? inside the script.
and then finish customizing it, adding your custom HTML where needed (header, body, footer) I've commented as to where they go in the script.

-s
FlashYourWeb and Your Gallery

I really do appreciate the help, but, Guys, I am getting nowhere still. If I gave you my setup and the embedding file, could you just fill it out for me?

Here is my setup: website: http://www.photorichards. com (I have a nonsense test page set up on the website now)

Location of g2: / home / public_html / gallery2
It also gives me this: http://photorichards.com/gallery2

Location of my gallery2embedded.php file: / home / public_html / gallery2 / gallery2embedded.php
(suprsidr: I am working with this php file instead of the one you provided, because I couldn't get yours to work and didn't want just g2 to be my default page, which you suggested it would be with your file renamed. I wanted to be able to put other items on the web page, too. I do appreciate your help.)

This is the file I need to get configured. I can't get the top configured correctly with respect to the 'path' 'embedpath' 'g2Uri' 'loginRedirect' and 'embedUri' Knowing my setup, could you please configure them for me? I would really appreciate it. I've spent hours on this. Below this file is how I have it configured. Perhaps you could point out where I went wrong. Thanks a million.

<?php
$g2_Config['path'] = dirname(__FILE__) . '/';

$g2_Config['g2Uri'] = '/gallery2/';
$g2_Config['loginRedirect'] = '/';
$g2_Config['embedUri'] = '/gallery2/gallery2embedded.php';

//print_r($g2_Config);
require_once( $g2_Config['path'] . 'embed.php');
if (!headers_sent()) {
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');
}
$ret = GalleryEmbed::init(array(
'g2Uri' => $g2_Config['g2Uri'],
'loginRedirect' => $g2_Config['loginRedirect'],
'embedUri' => $g2_Config['embedUri'],
'fullInit' => 'false',
'apiVersion' => array(1,0)
));
GalleryCapabilities::set('login',true);

// handle the G2 request
$g2moddata = GalleryEmbed::handleRequest();
// show error message if isDone is not defined
if (!isset($g2moddata['isDone']))
{
print 'isDone is not defined, something very bad must have happened.';
exit;
}
// die if it was a binary data (image) request
if ($g2moddata['isDone'])
{
exit; /* uploads module does this too */
}
if ($ret)
{
print $ret->getAsHtml();
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<?php
list($title, $css, $javascript) = GalleryEmbed::parseHead($g2moddata['headHtml']);
echo "<title>" . $title . " -- MySite</title>\n";

foreach ($css as $item) {
echo $item . "\n";
}
foreach ($javascript as $item) {
echo $item . "\n";
}
?>
<style type="text/css"> <!-- /*#gsHeader { display : none; } #gsFooter { display: none; }*/ --> </style>
</head>
<body class="gallery">
<?php
echo $g2moddata['bodyHtml'];
?>
</body>
</html>

(Below is my configuration of the top of the above file

<?php
$g2_Config['path'] = dirname(__FILE__) . '/photorichards.com/public_html/gallery2/';

$g2_Config['embedPath'] = '/gallery2/gallery2embedded.php';
$g2_Config['g2Uri'] = '/public_html/gallery2/';
$g2_Config['loginRedirect'] = '/';
$g2_Config['embedUri'] = '/gallery2embedded.php';

//print_r($g2_Config);
require_once( $g2_Config['path'] . 'embed.php');
if (!headers_sent()) {
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');
}
$ret = GalleryEmbed::init(array(
'g2Uri' => $g2_Config['g2Uri'],
'loginRedirect' => $g2_Config['loginRedirect'],
'embedUri' => $g2_Config['embedUri'],
'fullInit' => 'false',
'apiVersion' => array(1,0)

Steve, he is wanting this to be his site's default page, so you'll have to move it to his root, and rename it index.php, or have him change his root.

-s
FlashYourWeb and Your Gallery

Thanks, I was thinking he could do a redirect from the index.php to the gallery2embedded.php file

header("Location: /gallery2/gallery2embedded.php"); 

Steve Lineberry

Thanks for the advice. I have done as follows:

You said: "I would create the index.php at /home/photoric/public_html/ with the code I have in the previous post in it."
I did: I created the index.php file and put it in the /home/public_html/ folder. I am not sure why you said /home/photoric/public_html/ since the photoric and public_html folders are located on the same level within the home folder. Is that right or am I misinterpreting?

You said: "You will probably also have to delete or rename the index.html."
I did: I renamed the index.html file which is located within the public_html folder

I then tried to log into photorichards.com and this time, instead of getting the previous web page, I got the contents of the index.php file on the screen. It said: header("Location: /gallery2/gallery2embedded.php");

You mentioned: "This all assumes you have index.php listed in your DirectoryIndex in the httpd.conf file."

Does the fact that g2 did not show up on the web page mean that index.php is not listed in my DirectoryIndex in the httpd.conf file? I did some reading on that file. There was a warning at one discussion site that not just any text editor could be used (not notepad or MS Word), since they might append extra information to the file name. I am not sure what editor to use or how to use it or how to even access the file, httpd.conf. It seemed pretty straight forward to type that file name at the head of the directory index but there are warnings at a number of sites not to screw with this file, unless you know what you're doing, and always make a backup. It is no secret that I am in deep water, but I am willing to follow instructions. Any suggestions at this point? Thanks again for sticking with me. It feels like we're making progress.

It worked!! Just like the magic of seeing a print start to appear in the darkroom, g2 appeared when I went to my web site, and I have no one but you two guys to thank for it, certainly not myself. I am able to navigate throughout the web site and it is very quick. The only problem is that some of the images have become pixilated and some of the icons deliver the wrong picture, but I will deal with that by deleting and reinstalling the offending images.

Your history of helping people on the Internet with their problems is very impressive, on reviewing it on this web site. It is very comforting for the less knowlegable among us to be able to tap into this community of helpers. Thanks so much for your persistence and donation of your time and talent, Steve and suprsidr.

Carl Richards