Error message Embedding API version is incompatible [#285443]

First of all thanks for the upgrade to D6 and I supose a few bugs are inevitable.

First of all the layout

I have a 'business' account with 1 and 1 and 1 and 1 likes to 'do it different' so it may come from there.

In setting up Gallery2 itself it is necessary to change the data base name, password and host to make it work (the same goes for drupal itself where the defaults don't work)

My site is www.retiredbutactive.com and G2 is in a directory direct on the root so resides at

www.retiredbutactive.com/gallery2

Your Gallery module picks this up just fine but the auto configeration fails when it says it cant find embed.php tho it is clearly there

Doing the job by hand results in an error message

Embedding API version is incompatible

Which, I have to say means nothing to me.

This all might say I'm doing it wrong, but then please consider the possibility that the instructions are not clear enough for idiots like me.

(my son is an IT trainer. He says 'nothing is foolproof because fools are so creative' and this might have something to do with it.)

My Gallery Screen says

-Everything seemed OK, but the Gallery could still not be initialised. Perhaps a manually entered value is incorrect.

Gallery2 URL or URI
http://www.retiredbutactive.com/gallery2/

Gallery2 filesystem path:
./gallery2/

embed URI
/index.php?q=gallery

note have also tested ./gallery2

Gallery base (optional)

have tested a blank, gallery and gallery2

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#3	285443-3.patch	1.31 KB	crifi

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Comments

Comment #1

profix898 CreditAttribution: profix898 commented 21 July 2008 at 19:03

Guess I should improve the error message for this case ;) The "Embedding API version is incompatible" message simply tells you that your Gallery2 is too old. The embedding API is the interface gallery module uses to communicate with Gallery2. If you take a look at the project page or the release notes for 6.x-1.x-dev it states that you need the G2.3 RC or nightly build. For a productive site you probably want to wait 2 weeks or so until the stable G2.3 is released.

Comment #2

rogerwebb CreditAttribution: rogerwebb commented 22 July 2008 at 15:45

Thanks for the info.

I had just loaded the latest avaialble g2 but I take your point.

By the way - and I'm sure you've met up with this - the use of gallery and gallery2 as expressions in your write up can be confusing to the dimmer wits

G2 is saying that their older versions are suspect and putting up warnings that they should be replaced. The suggestion is that if you download anew you'll get a fully compatable D6 job

Heaven defend us - Drupal are talking about D7 and all the modules for d6 arn't up yet!