[LON-CAPA-admin] Setting default colors

[Stuart Raeburn]

The issue reported by Todd Ruskell is the result of bug in  
/home/httpd/lib/perl/Apache/domainprefs.pm

A fix is now available from CVS. Users with command line access to  
servers running 2.6.X will be able to apply the fix to domainprefs.pm.  
  Note: from LON-CAPA 2.5.0 onwards saved color choices for a domain  
etc. are stored in a GDBM file instead of a plain text file.

wget can be used to retrieve domainprefs.pm version 1.41.2.1 (suitable  
for use with LON-CAPA 2.6.X).

wget -O domainprefs.pm  
http://loncapa.msu.edu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/loncom/interface/domainprefs.pm?rev=1.41.2.1

The existing /home/httpd/lib/perl/Apache/domainprefs.pm (rev 1.41)  
should be replaced with this newer file.

Alternatively, the existing (rev 1.41)
/home/httpd/lib/perl/Apache/domainprefs.pm file could be edited  
directly.  The diffs are:

Change line 2015
-    my @bgs = ('pgbg','mainbg','sidebg');
+    my @bgs;

Lines add a new line at 2020, and at 2022
          if ($role eq 'login') {
              @images = ('img','logo','domlogo','login');
+            @bgs = ('pgbg','mainbg','sidebg');
          } else {
              @images = ('img');
+            @bgs = ('pgbg','tabbg','sidebg');
          }

On Fedora/RHEL/Centos do:

/etc/init.d/httpd reload


On SUSE/SLES do

/etc/init.d/apache reload

or

/etc/init.d/apache2 reload

(depending on version) after making the change.

Bug 5611 - http://bugzilla.loncapa.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5611 - is a  
separate issue most likely related to the way certain browsers (with  
certain encodings?) handle the # character from form input.

Stuart Raeburn
MSU LON-CAPA group

Quoting Stefan Bisitz <st.bisitz at fh-wolfenbuettel.de>:

> Hi,
>
> Please also check
> http://bugzilla.loncapa.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5611
>
> Stefan Bisitz
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Gerd Kortemeyer <korte at lite.msu.edu>
> Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 6:26 pm
> Subject: Re: [LON-CAPA-admin] Setting default colors
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Command line access should not be necessary anymore. Could you
>> please
>> describe what you did to change the colors, and what happened (or
>> failed to happen)?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> - Gerd.
>>
>> On May 14, 2008, at 5:43 PM, Todd Ruskell wrote:
>>
>> > I'm trying to set up new color schemes for our domain.  I've
>> found the
>> > place to do this as DC, but it seems that no matter what I do,
>> the new
>> > Background Header colors do not seem to be saved, or to take.  Is
>>
>> > there
>> > a file I can edit from the command line?  I am fortunate enough
>> to
>> > have
>> > root access to the server.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Todd
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Dr. Todd Ruskell
>> > Senior Lecturer, Department of Physics       Office:  Meyer Hall 326
>> > Colorado School of Mines                     Phone: 303-384-2080
>> > 1523 Illinois Street                         Fax: 303-273-3919
>> > Golden, CO 80401
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