#1: $wgDefaultSkin is the line you need to look for in the LocalSettings.php , by default it's monobook. #2: uncomment $wgArticlePath in LocalSettings.php, change it to be "eurowiki/$i" and I think it will do what your wanting. It should eliminate the apache error also. -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of William van Zwanenberg Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 12:55 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Creating some Template Please help ... Having recently installed MediaWiki, I'm trying desperately to make some site wide changes my Wiki's theme of "skin" so as to change its overall look and feel. To be more precise about this, what I'm trying to do is to install a third part theme called "Nullbook" developed by somebody called Samat Jain. Details on his theme is available here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:User:SamatJain/myskin.css Having got his permission, I've simply copied the CSS code contained therein. Having explained all that, let me now explain the problems I'm having ... 1. I'm trying to set the MediaWiki "Myskin" theme as the default theme for the entire wiki but have no idea how to do this. Do I need to edit "localSettings.php" and if so, what actual line in the file needs to be edited and what code do I need to include? 2. My wiki's root (which currently only exists on a development environment that is not network linked) is: http://localhost/eurowiki/ I should point out however, and this is very important, the standard installation (which I followed religiously) of version 1.5.1 (or whatever is the latest version) seems to result in an automatic redirect being in place such that entering this URL into the location bar of a web browser actually redirects the page to: http://localhost/eurowiki/index.php/Main_Page Anyway the point is this. If I go to: http://localhost/eurowiki/MediaWiki:Myskin.css whilst logged in as an Administrator, I get a 403 page generated via Apache. Obviously I need to edit this page with the CSS code from Nullbook or I need to import it which I don't want to do because I don't know how long Samat is going to make it available. Please help as this is driving me nuts. I realise this MediaWiki is an open-source project but it does seem that with every step forward I take and with every problem I resolve, I encounter another 3. Many thanks, Will _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Please help ... Despite my best efforts, I'm still finding that it's impossible to get my MediaWiki installation to use any other theme other than the default monobook one. To explain further, please read the following snippet from an earlier posting of mine some overall In an effort to change the default skin, I edited the following line of code in the file LocalSettings.php: $wgDefaultSkin = "MySkin"; Where "MySkin" is to be the name of the skin I wish to use. Following advice from this list, I also amended LocalSettings.php so as to allow for the use of smaller URLs with the following lines of code: $wgScriptPath = "eurowiki" $wgArticlePath = "/wiki/$1"; $wgScriptExtension = ".php"; Given that I'm running the wiki on a windows box, I opted to use XAMPP for the complete installation with Apache and MySQL. The path therefore to the installation and the index.php file from my server's root is as follows: xampp/htdocs/eurowik/index.php The directory "eurowiki" being were the actual wiki code is located. Additionally, I also edited httpd.conf within my apache installation s as to include a redirecting alias. What I want is for all URLs whilst the wiki uses whilst it is running of localhost to take the form: http://localhost/wiki/Article_Page where "Article_Page" is the name of a given article. It follows from this that in order to use Samat Jain's Nullbook CSS code, I'd need to create an article within the MediaWiki namespace thus: http://localhost/wiki/MediaWiki:MySkin.css and copy his CSS code into it. After which, I simply clear my browser's cache and restart Apache. Well this I've done but I still can't get it to work. What am I doing wrong? Any help, greatly appreciated. CC: Samat Jain

preferences"? your That's a very good question which didn't occur to me to ask. At the moment, I've only registered two users: myself and "Admin". Using both accounts although the GUI allows me select a change of skin via "my preferences", the actual change doesn't take effect. So what does this tell you?

Might be permissions: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Skins -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of William van Zwanenberg Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 6:50 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Cc: Samat K Jain Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] changing wiki theme to "nullbook" CORECTION!!! It does work when logged in as "Admin" but it doesn't work using any other account which have less priviledges. -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of William van Zwanenberg Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 2:45 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Cc: Samat K Jain Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] changing wiki theme to "nullbook" preferences"? your That's a very good question which didn't occur to me to ask. At the moment, I've only registered two users: myself and "Admin". Using both accounts although the GUI allows me select a change of skin via "my preferences", the actual change doesn't take effect. So what does this tell you? _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l