[cobalt-developers] [Fwd: Re: RAQ 3 Templates]

[ChaosIndustries <chaosindustries@xxxxxx>]

Maybe there is someone out there who is interested in....

-------- Original Message --------
Betreff: Re: RAQ 3 Templates
Datum: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 20:52:54 +0200
Von: ChaosIndustries <chaosindustries@xxxxxx>
An: mcannon@xxxxxxxxxxx

Okay, that is a desc i can use ;)

First you have to know some Basics:

The "home" from all that stuff running on port 81 is
/usr/admserv/ (will say ~ from now)
~/cgi-bin/ is the cgi-bin dir from that httpd
~/html/ the "normal" web root dir

domain.dom:81/ will go to ~/html/
domain.dom:81/cgi-bin/ will go to ~/cgi-bin/ (not to ~/html/cgi-bin/ as
asumed)

~/templates/ is the path where the most templates are stored.

in ~/html/ and in ~/cgi-bin/ is a dir named .cobalt (use 'ls -Af' to
see)
All Files used by the GUI are behind that two .cobalt dirs

Note that all files are owned by root. 

> I would like our logo in place of the Cobalt logo for starters

To change the Logo in the upper left Corner just replace

~/html/.cobalt/images/a_top_logo.gif

>From now there is YOUR Logo
All Images used by the GUI are in ~/html/.cobalt/images/

Changing that images will not take any critacal effect of the function
from the GUI

> but beyond that I
> would like to customize the actuall pages it creates by default.  It would be
> great if the virtual sites looked like our site with respect to colors and
> formatting.
>

Will be some work. The Templates the GUI is using are that one in
~/templates/
Take a look in it, but still be sure what you are doing cause changing
that
templates
in a wrong way or forget some details may take effekt on the function of
the GUI

>
> The RAQ 3I creates virtual sites and personal pages and it uses something as a
> template but I cannot determine what or where.  I too am trying to learn as much
> about these machines as possible and appreciate any help you provide.
>
> By changing the files within /etc/skel/  will that modify all new virtual sites
> created?  Also where are the graphics files located?
>

/etc/skel/group/en_US/web/index.html is the default placeholder page
when a vsite is

created. You can edit that without any risk. The page you will see when
visiting
www.new_site.dom - that is that page.

The gfx used in that page is located in the same dir where the logo is.

>
> What did you mean by "Use [DOMAIN] as placeholder for that template"?
>

That index.html is a template - that means it has dynamic content. The
Content here
is
the name of the vsite you have created. [DOMAIN] (DONT replace DOMAIN,
write
exactly [DOMAIN]) will be replaced with the vsite name you have created.

If you created a vsite www.abc.dom in each place where you used [DOMAIN]
in that
template you will find www.abc.dom

Greets Sven


mcannon@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>I would like our logo in place of the Cobalt logo for starters but beyond that I
>would like to customize the actuall pages it creates by default.  It would be
>great if the virtual sites looked like our site with respect to colors and
>formatting.
>Hi Sven,
>
>The RAQ 3I creates virtual sites and personal pages and it uses something as a
>template but I cannot determine what or where.  I too am trying to learn as much
>about these machines as possible and appreciate any help you provide.
>
>By changing the files within /etc/skel/  will that modify all new virtual sites
>created?  Also where are the graphics files located?
>
>What did you mean by "Use [DOMAIN] as placeholder for that template"?
>
>Sorry for all the questions...
>
>Mike