drhiii, Yes I am indeed the cer on the Gallery forums, I visit there once or twice a week in case anyone has a problem.
On the paths question - gallery2 in a folder off the zencart install in the top website folder, thats how I've always installed it, and it works ofr me. (I think Michael Rodrigues Torrent who wrote it originally recommended that and I've stuck with it.
Th 'path' issue is the one most prone to error, but stick with it. A missing thumbnail is an amost guaranteed sign that something is amiss. The other real gotcha is please - first thing, create a ZC category to specify as the 'root' folder for Gallery. Do NOT link to the top ZC category. Very bad things happen, and you will reinstall.
All the gallery images in ZC are simply paths back to a call to g2_view, which serves up the image - example
http://www.mydomain.com/gallery2/mai...&g2_itemId=285
the itemid being the thumbnail being displayed.
And an example of a 'Path to Zencart' in the gallery2 setup. Remember that it is the file system path, so /var/www/web1/web/
or similar - /home/www/site56/public_html/ etc. Don't forget the closing / at the end.
I also cannot stress enough how important it is to alter the product thumbnail path table in the database for the larger (255) field size. The thumbnail example I gave above would breakwith the default size. Result, no thumbnail, as only the 1st 64 chars would be stored.
Not sure on the naming, but I've always kept them on the same website. I had no problems with different databases by setting user permissions aptly, but remember, it's my server it runs on.
On a commercially hosted server, I think you'd battle, and even with different websites on the same server you would have a problem.
On the pricing/options side, yes they are settable, and changeable quite easily.
Hope that helps, good luck, and shout if there's a problem. Just remember the magic words, 'This one's for Ansel'.
Rgds,
Chuck
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