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Question

Does PublishContrib support custom skins? What template files are required in order to allow publishing with customized templates? I have customized a single template file (view.myskin.tmpl) that inherits the properties of the PatternSkin templates, with some customized stuff. When I preview pages with this custom template, the pages appear just as expected. But when I pass this template as a "skin" to a publish command line, the results are blank pages with only empty paragraph tags.

Environment

TWiki version:	TWikiRelease04x00x04
TWiki plugins:	DefaultPlugin, EmptyPlugin, InterwikiPlugin
Server OS:	RHEL4
Web server:	apache2
Perl version:	5.8.5
Client OS:	RHEL4
Web Browser:	Firefox
Categories:	Plugins, Skin

-- JohnDeStefano - 25 Oct 2006

Answer

If you answer a question - or someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is below the edit box.

In addition, I seem to be having some trouble publishing after upgrading to. When I try to publish the generic TWiki web with a custom skin, I get the following perl errors regarding the PatternSkinPallette topic:

PatternSkinPalette:     not published: ***Cannot read /var/www/twiki/pub/Main/TWikiAdminGroup/PatternSkinPalette.css: No such file or directory***
 at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CGI/Carp.pm line 314
        CGI::Carp::realdie('***Cannot read /var/www/twiki/pub/Main/TWikiAdminGroup/Patter...') called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CGI/Carp.pm line 385
        CGI::Carp::die('***Cannot read /var/www/twiki/pub/Main/TWikiAdminGroup/Patter...') called at /var/www/twiki/lib/TWiki/Contrib/Publish.pm line 478
        TWiki::Contrib::Publish::_copyResource('TWiki', 'undef', 'HASH(0xa68c0dc)', 'TWiki::Contrib::PublishContrib::file=HASH(0xa9d8a68)') called at /var/www/twiki/lib/TWiki/Contrib/Publish.pm line 379
        TWiki::Contrib::Publish::publishTopic('TWiki', 'PatternSkinPalette', 'TWikiAdminGroup', 'anon', '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN...', 'HASH(0xa68c0dc)', '', 'TWiki::Contrib::PublishContrib::file=HASH(0xa9d8a68)') called at /var/www/twiki/lib/TWiki/Contrib/Publish.pm line 288
        TWiki::Contrib::Publish::__ANON__() called at /var/www/twiki/lib/CPAN/lib///Error.pm line 379
        eval {...} called at /var/www/twiki/lib/CPAN/lib///Error.pm line 371
        Error::subs::try('CODE(0xa9f4394)', 'HASH(0xb623648)') called at /var/www/twiki/lib/TWiki/Contrib/Publish.pm line 294
        TWiki::Contrib::Publish::publishWeb('TWiki', 'TWikiAdminGroup', '.*', '', 'anon', 'view', '', 'TWiki::Contrib::PublishContrib::file=HASH(0xa9d8a68)') called at /var/www/twiki/lib/TWiki/Contrib/Publish.pm line 218
        TWiki::Contrib::Publish::publish('TWiki=HASH(0x9f7a304)') called at /var/www/twiki/lib/TWiki/UI.pm line 109
        TWiki::UI::__ANON__() called at /var/www/twiki/lib/CPAN/lib///Error.pm line 379
        eval {...} called at /var/www/twiki/lib/CPAN/lib///Error.pm line 371
        Error::subs::try('CODE(0xa9f1470)', 'HASH(0xa9a6da4)') called at /var/www/twiki/lib/TWiki/UI.pm line 158
        TWiki::UI::run('CODE(0xa1206cc)') called

I verified that the file

/var/www/twiki/pub/Main/TWikiAdminGroup/PatternSkinPalette.css

does not exist, and that there is no directory called TWikiAdminGroup in the pub/Main directory.

Also, the following error was thrown at the end of the publish job:

Templates Used = edit,oopsrev,view
Templates Specified = view
***WARNING: there is a difference between what you specified and what you needed. Consider changing the TEMPLATES setting so it has all Templates Used.***
Published to <a href="/twikihtml/TWiki">TWiki</a>{PublishContrib}{Dir}: /var/www/twikihtml
{PublishContrib}{URL}: /twikihtml

I didn't specify "view" as a template; I specified a custom template (called "anon") based on the pattern skin.

-- JohnDeStefano - 31 Oct 2006

PublishContrib just uses TWiki with the given skin to render pages, so if a page is rendered correctly in TWiki, it ought to be rendered correctly in the contrib. You don't say what format you are trying to publish in; eliminate some variables by publishing to HTML. I assume you checked that the file /var/www/twiki/pub/Main/TWikiAdminGroup/PatternSkinPalette.css actually exists?

-- CrawfordCurrie - 28 Nov 2006

I'm publishing to HTML. I mentioned above that the CSS file does not exist at that path; should it exist in the TWikiAdminGroup directory? It does exist here:

/var/www/twiki/pub/TWiki/PatternSkinPalette/PatternSkinPalette.css

It also gets copied to the "published" HTML tree:

/var/www/twikihtml/TWiki/rsrc/TWiki/PatternSkinPalette/PatternSkinPalette.css

-- JohnDeStefano - 28 Nov 2006

I suppose it's possible that one or more path in the published HTMl isn't being correctly converted to the publish area. Publish a page, view source, and make sure that the path to the css file is actually ointing at the published location.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 16 Dec 2006

No activity for over 30 days, closing this...

-- PeterThoeny - 01 Feb 2007

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