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#1 12-28-2010 14:21:25

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The Proper Way To Install A New Skin For CCP 6.0 (& CCP 7.0?)

There have been several questions about this, none of which have been fully answered, so here's a full and proper answer wink ...




The process does not fully implement your new skin into your webstore, that's what wrong with simply cloning existing skins.

To properly implement a new skin by all means start by cloning something like the default  skin, but then follow this up by modifying the contents of , which can be found in the  subdirectory of the cloned skin directory, to give the all important identifying details to your new skin.

Then you need to need to turn the entire cloned directory, which should be renamed to match the name/id in its  file, into a .tar archive.

I am not sure about tools for doing this on Windows, 'though there are bound to be some, but on Linux boxes you can run something like the following in a shell session:

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tar -cf LDW.tar LDW

...or something like the following if you want to produce a .tar.gz archive (have not tested whether this will be acceptable to the install new skin process or not):

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tar -pczf LDW.tar.gz LDW/

You should now have an archive that can be used when in the following location:



If you are experiencing problems doing this, like

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There was a problem processing the file operations needed to completed your request.

...and/or the debug reporting that  table is read only...

...you may be needing to change the group ownership of the tables within your mysql database. - By default these will usually be owner  and group  with  for file permissions, but you may need to change the group ownership to (for Apache and sometimes Lighttpd) . - Making , or whatever the group of your HTTPD server is, part of group  will not work.


Once the new skins have been successfully installed you should be able to view the entries for the skins in the  table within the database.  The install directory and corresponding .xml file should also not be present within the new skin directories, as they will have been removed during the install process.

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#2 12-29-2010 04:28:41

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Re: The Proper Way To Install A New Skin For CCP 6.0 (& CCP 7.0?)

"...or something like the following if you want to produce a .tar.gz archive (have not tested whether this will be acceptable to the install new skin process or not):
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It's probably better to stick to the .tar variety - the files are not usually particularly large, and I seem to recall having problems using the .gz variety in the past.

Nigel


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#3 12-29-2010 09:59:18

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Re: The Proper Way To Install A New Skin For CCP 6.0 (& CCP 7.0?)

Thanks, Nigel, - I should have tested that myself, but am having fun with the database and trying to sort out mobile browsing requirements, so it got listed for later smile ...

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