Abiquo branding admin guide

This section applies to Abiquo CSS branding in versions prior to Abiquo 6.1.
For branding within the UI see Themes management

This page describes how to upload a theme for whitelabelling and install it on an Abiquo UI Server

Back up the Abiquo UI

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

To back up the Abiquo UI:

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

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

To upload a branding theme do these steps:

Compress the theme, for example, if the theme is in a folder called customer
```
tar -cvfz customer.tar.gz customer
```

Copy the theme to the UI server, for example

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

Log in to the UI server and go to the theme directory.
```
cd /var/www/html/ui/theme
```
Back up any existing customer theme by copying the theme directory
Copy the customer theme to the theme directory and uncompress it
This will overwrite any existing theme
```
cp ~/customer.tar.gz . 
tar -xvzf customer.tar.gz
```
To check that the Apache server can read the theme, list all files and permissions:
```
ls -al
```
If the owner of the files is not the same as other UI files, change it to match. For example:
```
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.