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Back up the Abiquo UI

In addition to regular backups, we recommend that you make a quick backup of the UI before enabling branding.

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1. Log in to a shell on the Abiquo server with a user with root permissions and make a copy of the UI folder

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   mkdir /opt/abiquo/quick_ui_backup tar -cvfz /opt/abiquo/quick_ui_backup/ui_`date +%Y%m%d`.tar.gz /var/www/html/ui/

   
   

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Upload

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Upload an optional default theme to style the login screen and your enterprise themes, including the image files.

Note that the abicloudDefault folder contains the predefined default theme; do not overwrite this folder or the login screen will not display correctly.

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Compress your theme folder

Log in to the Abiquo Server and copy your theme to theme folder

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The theme folder is /var/www/html/ui/theme

For example, using wget from the Abiquo Server to a Linux machine

wget myuser@mymachine:~/Downloads/mytheme_base_theme.tar.gz /var/www/html/ui/theme

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a branding theme

To upload a branding theme do these steps:

1. Compress the theme, for example, if the theme is in a folder called customer

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   tar -cvfz customer.tar.gz customer

2. Copy the theme to the UI server, for example

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   scp root@api-ui-server:~/Downloads/customer.tar.gz customer.tar.gz

3. Log in to the UI server and go to the theme directory.

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   cd /var/www/html/ui/theme mv my_custom_theme my_custom_theme_backup

   Extract the theme (which will OVERWRITE any theme with the same name). For example, when the theme was compressed with tar and gzip

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   tar -zxvf my_custom_theme

   Back up any existing customer theme by copying the theme directory

4. Copy the customer theme to the theme directory and uncompress it
   This will overwrite any existing theme

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   cp ~/customer.tar.gz . tar -xvzf customer.tar.gz

5. Remember to To check the file ownership and access settings, because the Abiquo Tomcat server will need to access the branding files

Edit UI configuration to add new themes to enterprise menu

To add new themes to the enterprise menu, edit the UI configuration:

1. Log in to a shell on the Abiquo server as a user with the appropriate permissions (e.g. root or sudo user)

2. Edit the client-config-custom.json file to add new enterprise themes

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   cd /var/www/html/ui/config vi client-config-custom.json

   Edit the file and add the base theme and the custom themes as an element within the brackets { and }. 

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   "client.themes": [ "abicloudDefault", "my_custom_theme" ]

    You must add abicloudDefault or the user interface will not load properly.
    Check your JSON file format with a JSON checker to ensure that the UI will load properlythat the Apache server can read the theme, list all files and permissions:

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   ls -al

   If the owner of the files is not the same as other UI files, change it to match. For example:

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   chown -R root:root customer

The abicloudDefault folder contains the predefined default theme. Do not overwrite this folder or the login screen will not display correctly.

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