Add comment by non-registered users, web addresses directly pointing to an album

keresztespok

Joined: 2005-01-08
Posts: 36
Posted: Fri, 2006-10-06 08:51

HI,

I am using both galleries 1 and 2 side by side. There are a couple of features that I am still struggling to find in g2, I wonder if anyone can help me out.

1. In gallery 1 one could give the album name as the path name in the web address, and could directly access the subalbums.

For example one could directly go to Album 1 by giving the yoursite.com/gallery/Album1 address.

How does that work in gallery 2?

2. Another thing that I fail to find so far in gallery 2, is the add comment by unregistered users. The add comment logo comes up only if someone logs on. Is there a way to give commenting rights to ordinary users?

3. An annoying thing. When I set g2 to arrange my images based on their titles, and than rename an image, I'll end up in the gallery in a new position corresponding the name of the image. Often I want to rename many images, so it means that it would be better if I were left right where the image was originally placed. Often it takes two-three clicks to get back where I can continue renaming. This does not sound a lot, but if you need to rename thousands of images, time will add up for sure.

Of course a bulk renaming module would be the right tool, and I know that such a tool is being developed.

Thx.

Xespok
 
valiant

Joined: 2003-01-04
Posts: 32509
Posted: Fri, 2006-10-06 10:45

1. what exactly is it that is missing in g2? the only difference is the v/ prefix which you can remove. and that album names are now hierarchical, e.g. if album2 is a subalbum of album1, it would be example.com/gallery/album1/album2/ while in g1 it is example.com/gallery/album2/.
but note that if you migrate a g1 to g2, all links still work, redirects of g1 links are recorded during the migration.
also, if you really like the g1 style, you can add permalinks with the permalink module.

2. just add the "view comment" and "add comment" permission to the "everybody group".

3. use the "edit captions" view to batch rename.

 
keresztespok

Joined: 2005-01-08
Posts: 36
Posted: Fri, 2006-10-06 11:33

Hi,

1, What does not work for me, is to access any side by its album name whether or not

My actual site:

I can not access my album named Coleoptera using

xespok.net/gallery2/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera

xespok.net/gallery2/Coleoptera

for these I get 404.

The only way is to access these pages are as:

http://xespok.net/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=1132

or go to

xespok.net/gallery2/ and click throgh the path.

Now the path names should be ok. And Coleoptera is on my permalink list.

2, Issue solved.
I was looking for these options at the Site Administrator pages, but I did not see an option to do so at the Gallery-Users or the Extra-data-Comments section (where these functions would be most obviously placed).

3, Issue solved.

Thx

Xespok
 
valiant

Joined: 2003-01-04
Posts: 32509
Posted: Fri, 2006-10-06 21:58

1. enable the URL rewrite module in site admin -> modules.
 
keresztespok

Joined: 2005-01-08
Posts: 36
Posted: Sat, 2006-10-07 08:01

Thx,

I can not activate the module.

My host does have the mod_rewrite installed and active.

http://st100.startlogic.com/phpinfo.php

However, when I try to enable the mod_rewrite module, as recommended, gallery can not detect the mod_rewrite module automatically and both manual tests fail.

So I went back to the other option (do not remember the name). With that option I could finally activate URL rewrite. I was transfered to another page where I allowed short URLs for many of the possible tasks, including permalinks. No problems there.

Still I can not access my permalinks or any other directory whether using the full path or

Xespok
 
valiant

Joined: 2003-01-04
Posts: 32509
Posted: Sat, 2006-10-07 15:39

if you have the nice G1 URLs on the same host à la example.com/gallery/album1/, then mod_rewrite is available on that host.

and permalinks requires mod_rewrite as well.