thank you Steven.  I tried the test for showkase and everything passed  except the php version.  My host's version is 4.4.9 unfortunately.  Until I can sort that out with them, does not look like showkase will be a good solution.
Tried taking the js script version of mx galleries and playing with it a bit, but to no avail at this point.  still just returns the code of the page, not any galleries. I am sure there is something simple I am not seeing ( did point to the correct path for jbcore) but not sure yet what that simple thing is.  NOT sure how it points to path for the gallery actually...

Hello-using Pro plugin in Lightroom Classic 11.2 on Mac M1 Max Monterey 12.1. 
created a simple 22 image, 2 page gallery to test out feature set.  exported from Lightroom to folder on desktop.
no modification to folder or file structure as setup by export.

DID search , without success for this one!
Wanting to implement something like the Multiple Gallery demo page shown on the Jukebox website.  actually copied the code from that page and typed it into my test gallery index.html page ( that was empty).  Did not think it would work.  Expectations were correct-it did not.  Seems there is just a need to establish a header and a footer section on the page that can float across the site.  May need as many as 10 links in that header or foot section.
Does not appear Jukebox, in the default setting I have available in Lightroom Classic, allows this to happen directly.  Assuming the desktop version would have similar limitations.
How does one create that type of setup?
thank you
Scott

ok- now that the local file restrictions have been disabled I guess I can move on.  apologies for the bother. I really did think I had read install instructions well-apparently not.

Hello-using Pro plugin in Lightroom Classic 11.2 on Mac M1 Max Monterey 12.1. 
created a simple 22 image, 2 page gallery to test out feature set.  exported from Lightroom to folder on desktop.
no modification to folder or file structure as setup by export.

double clicked index file from new gallery.  Received error "Juicebox Error: Config file not found."

config file is in folder with index file. Thumbs and Images folders are in same subdirectory as config.xml and index.html.  They also have the appropriate number of image files.
jbcore folder exists in same subdirectory and contains the juicebox.js and .php files as well as psd.php, full.html and classic folder.
 
Opened index file in text editor- it was empty.

What did I do worng?
Thank you-