?skin= should always work. What and where is your skin exactly ? On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Mahomed Hussein <Mahomed(a)custodiandc.com> wrote: -- Thomas Mortagne

Hi Thomas Thanks for responding. The skin is called "CDCSkin". Which is sometimes shown as "Main.CDCSkin". The URL for it is: http://xwiki.local:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Main/CDCSkin The title of the page is simply "Skin" and the breadcrumbs shows "Home > Skin" I have tried the following URLS and none work: http://xwiki.local:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Main/?skin=CDCSkin http://xwiki.local:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Main/?skin=Main.CDCSkin http://xwiki.local:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Main/?skin=Skin I have also checked in /usr/lib/xwiki/skins and the only directory in there is "flamingo". Though I am pretty sure at some point it was changed so that you didn't have to duplicate the folder, just had to create a "skin" document (not sure document is the right word, but hopefully you know what I mean). I've tried a search for "CDCSkin" on the server and it doesn't appear to exist on the filesystem. Please let me know if you need any other info and thanks again for your help. Kind regards, Mahomed Hussein Custodian Data Centre Email: Mahomed(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com -----Original Message----- From: users [mailto:users-bounces@xwiki.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Mortagne Sent: 26 May 2016 13:44 To: XWiki Users <users(a)xwiki.org> Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] xWiki 8.1 ignoring custom skin The only thing that changed I can think of is that there is a default base skin now in xwiki.cfg. Skin that were not indicated any parent skin used to inherit directly from /templates/, maybe that's you issue. On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com> wrote: -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users

I'm afraid that makes no difference. Would it be worth deleting and recreating a new skin? I have noticed that the "home" icon as well as other icons in the applications panel have changed from the font-awesome type to colourful type icons. But I still don't have the logo or any of the modifications from the attached .vm files. I have downloaded the .vm files and I don't mind editing them again based on the latest files. I just need to know how to create a new skin that I can customise and be sure it'll work going forward. Please could you help me with specific instructions on how to do this if it's possible? Thanks. Kind regards, Mahomed Hussein Custodian Data Centre Email: Mahomed(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com -----Original Message----- From: users [mailto:users-bounces@xwiki.org] On Behalf Of Vincent Massol Sent: 26 May 2016 14:14 To: XWiki Users <users(a)xwiki.org> Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] xWiki 8.1 ignoring custom skin Could it be that your skin page is a nested page? Try http://xwiki.local:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Main/?skin=Main.CDCSkin.WebHome Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Hi All OK, I've done a bit more "digging/experimenting". What I have done now: 1) Deleted the "Skin" documents in Main and in Xwiki "spaces/pages" (p.s. I miss the spaces concept :) ) - This doesn't really seem to do a good job of deleting the pages. There seems to be a "blank" placeholder for the document. 2) I created a copy of the flamingo directory in /usr/lib/xwiki/skins/ and named it CDCSkin2 3) I then set the Wiki Skin to be "CDCSkin2" (Administer Wiki > Presentation > Skin and then I checked the different pages. I noticed that the "Main" page still ignored the skin, but all the other pages were loading the skin correctly. So for example http://xwiki.local:8080/xwiki/bin/admin/XWiki/XWikiPreferences?editor=globa… = Working http://xwiki.local:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Accounts/ = Working http://xwiki.local:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ = Not working Even setting the skin directly on the Main page (Administer Page > Presentation) was not working. After further investigation and testing, I noticed that this was because the Custom Theme was set for that page. If I set the Logo in the Theme, then it applied correctly everywhere. So it seems that the Theme logo now overrides the skin logo. But, if I set the Skin in Administer Wiki > Presentation > Skin to be something like Main.CDCSkin3, I can see that any code in the Skin document gets executed as per http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/Skins BUT the logo from the skin doesn't get applied. It defaults to the logo in the Theme. So basically I went down a rabbit's hole thinking the skin was not working because the logo was not being applied, but in fact the skin was working, but the logo was being picked from the Theme because @logo in the theme was still set to default. Kind regards, Mahomed Hussein Custodian Data Centre Email: Mahomed(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com -----Original Message----- From: users [mailto:users-bounces@xwiki.org] On Behalf Of Mahomed Hussein Sent: 27 May 2016 09:15 To: XWiki Users <users(a)xwiki.org> Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] xWiki 8.1 ignoring custom skin Hi Sorry to bump this up. I'm really stuck with this skin issue and would really appreciate any pointers/help. Sadly there are some people who feel that not having the logo is the end of the world :-) But more importantly, I do need some of the modifications/restrictions I've put in with the .vm files. Kind regards, Mahomed Hussein Custodian Data Centre Email: Mahomed(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com -----Original Message----- From: users [mailto:users-bounces@xwiki.org] On Behalf Of Mahomed Hussein Sent: 26 May 2016 15:19 To: XWiki Users <users(a)xwiki.org> Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] xWiki 8.1 ignoring custom skin I'm afraid that makes no difference. Would it be worth deleting and recreating a new skin? I have noticed that the "home" icon as well as other icons in the applications panel have changed from the font-awesome type to colourful type icons. But I still don't have the logo or any of the modifications from the attached .vm files. I have downloaded the .vm files and I don't mind editing them again based on the latest files. I just need to know how to create a new skin that I can customise and be sure it'll work going forward. Please could you help me with specific instructions on how to do this if it's possible? Thanks. Kind regards, Mahomed Hussein Custodian Data Centre Email: Mahomed(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com -----Original Message----- From: users [mailto:users-bounces@xwiki.org] On Behalf Of Vincent Massol Sent: 26 May 2016 14:14 To: XWiki Users <users(a)xwiki.org> Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] xWiki 8.1 ignoring custom skin Could it be that your skin page is a nested page? Try http://xwiki.local:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Main/?skin=Main.CDCSkin.WebHome Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Thanks. Indeed it does. The thing is that I had it this way (logo set in the skin, not the theme) since I started using XWiki sometime with version 7.x (if not earlier) and it only "broke/changed" with the upgrade to 8.1 It's not a complaint, just pointing out my observation and the resolution to the problem I had :-) Thanks again for everyone's help. Kind regards, Mahomed Hussein Custodian Data Centre Email: Mahomed(a)CustodianDC.com http://www.CustodianDC.com -----Original Message----- From: users [mailto:users-bounces@xwiki.org] On Behalf Of Marius Dumitru Florea Sent: 30 May 2016 08:52 To: XWiki Users <users(a)xwiki.org> Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] xWiki 8.1 ignoring custom skin On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 12:11 PM, Mahomed Hussein <Mahomed(a)custodiandc.com> wrote: The Getting Started Guide indicates that the logo should be changed from the Theme http://enterprise.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GettingStarted/ChangingTheLogoAn… . _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users