Why my Joomla gallery link asks for admin access to administrator folder? And how do I fix it?

Question

I have an image gallery component, linked to a menu item. I also have my administrator folder secured on my web host (user security). Additionally, my folders are all CHMOD 755.

When I click on the gallery link, it pops up the security access form, as if the link or component needs to write to the administrator folder...

Am I overdoing security or is there a permission solution to this issue?

Answer 1

You should use modules to publish the gallery using:

{loadmodule position}

With the modules you can restrict who sees the gallery and then within the Gallery manage itself you should have some way of restricting the component to registered/super users. Otherwise opt to use a gallery which is ready out of the box as Joomla has plenty to choose from within the Extension library.