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changing skinSubmitted by gmanolis on Fri, 09/28/2007 - 7:25am.Downloaded .ZIP of skin. It says to unzip it into Twiki install directory. Where is this on Jumpbox/VMware? |
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Adding a Twiki skin
With Twiki, there are two ways of adding skins or plugins.
The first is through the TWiki web configuration page which you can access by going to:
http://yourwikiip/twiki/bin/configure
Click on plugins at the bottom, then click "Find more extensions" near the bottom. This will give you the choice of SOME of the third party plugins and skins and not all of them install correctly but some do. BTW, this works only with TWiki JumpBox 1.0.2 and newer.
The other method is more manual and requires that you enable shell access on the JumpBox and log in and unzip the skin, as you mentioned above. I have described that process in the post here:
http://www.jumpbox.com/node/447
This will work with any registered TWiki JumpBox and ought to work with any skin or plugin that would work with the TWiki version, which at this point the TWiki version in the JumpBox is 4.1.2. One warning though, third party skins and plugins are in no way supported and can be of questionable quality.
Good luck, and let me know if you have any problems.
Austin
changing skin / installing new skin
i've clicked on the http://www.jumpbox.com/node/447, and it says i am not authorized. I've registered the jumpbox, so I should have access?
or can this be emailed to me [email snipped out]
Drat, here I will post it
Drat, here I will post it here for the time being.
So, the first thing you have to do is enable shell/SSH access on your JumpBox as shown here: http://www.jumpbox.com/docs/enableshell
Now you should SSH into your JumpBox using the admin username and password and the IP address shown on the JumpBox console. Once you are logged in issue the following command:
You will now have the theme in that directory in the file dragonskin.zip. Now you need to change into the TWiki directory and unzip that file:
Now, you can read the Dragon Skin page to get more details about setting it up by typing DragonSkinInstall into the Find Topic box on your Twiki. The gist of those instructions are to type
* Set SKIN = dragon * Set DS_THEME = tabstyleinto the WebPreferences page. I put it under the Themes section. You may need to make some more settings under other the Twiki Web or other places. The TWiki Documentation is a little weak and understanding their preferences system takes a little getting used to. After doing that I had the Quick Links menu that was empty, right below the place I edited above I put
* Set DS_QUICKLINKS = <ul><li>[[TWiki.DragonSkin][Change me]]</li></ul> * Set DS_QUICKLINKSHEADING = "Footastic"That should get you set off in the right direction. If you find this too tedious, you might grab the 1.0.2 TWiki JumpBox and try one of the themes that can be installed through the TWiki plugin manager. It will allow you to skip all of the command line steps above.
Good Luck and let me know if you have any problems.
Austin