William van Zwanenberg wrote: > Please help ... > > Having recently installed MediaWiki, I'm trying desperately to make some > site wide changes my Wiki's theme of "skin" so as to change its overall > look and feel. To be more precise about this, what I'm trying to do is > to install a third part theme called "Nullbook" developed by somebody > called Samat Jain. Details on his theme is available here: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:User:SamatJain/myskin.css > > Having got his permission, I've simply copied the CSS code contained > therein. > > Having explained all that, let me now explain the problems I'm having > ... > > 1. I'm trying to set the MediaWiki "Myskin" theme as the default theme > for the entire wiki but have no idea how to do this. Do I need to edit > "localSettings.php" and if so, what actual line in the file needs to be > edited and what code do I need to include?
Add at LocalSettings.php $wgDefaultSkin = "myskin"; > 2. My wiki's root (which currently only exists on a development > environment that is not network linked) is: http://localhost/eurowiki/ > I should point out however, and this is very important, the standard > installation (which I followed religiously) of version 1.5.1 (or > whatever is the latest version) seems to result in an automatic redirect > being in place such that entering this URL into the location bar of a > web browser actually redirects the page to: > http://localhost/eurowiki/index.php/Main_Page > > Anyway the point is this. If I go to: > http://localhost/eurowiki/MediaWiki:Myskin.css whilst logged in as an > Administrator, I get a 403 page generated via Apache. Obviously I need > to edit this page with the CSS code from Nullbook or I need to import it > which I don't want to do because I don't know how long Samat is going to > make it available. Given your setup, the page you want is http://localhost/eurowiki/index.php/MediaWiki:Myskin.css If you wanted to have the articles at http://localhost/eurowiki/ArticleName instead of http://localhost/eurowiki/index.php/ArticleName you need to add a redirect (preferably without having the mediawiki files at eurowiki folder). See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL > Please help as this is driving me nuts. > > I realise this MediaWiki is an open-source project but it does seem that > with every step forward I take and with every problem I resolve, I > encounter another 3. > > Many thanks, > > Will _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
