Branding Configuration

[Sherry Lake]

I finally carved some time to read up and study how to use the new 4.7 feature "Branding".

But as I attempted to test things I realized that all the branding customization files (logos, custom home page, header, etc.) need to be on THE dataverse installation (localhost).

I do not have login access to the server, so I cannot put files in the /var/www/dataverse/branding folder.

So there is no other way to customize without having access to this directory on the "localhost"?

Ok, if that's the case then I am going to have to beg and beg to get permissions. I am able to do other admin database setting changes using curl and API commands (our test machine is behind our IP authenticated network).

Any advice other than get permissions?

Thanks

Sherry

[Philip Durbin]

That's right. For an installation of Dataverse in production, you need to have access to a filesystem that your Dataverse server uses. It could be NFS-mounted, if that helps.

Would it make sense to work on your customization files from the comfort of your computer by running Dataverse in Vagrant* and then emailed them to your ops folks once you were happy with them? This would involve installing Vagrant and VirtualBox.

Thanks so much for taking a look at these new customization features. We're eager to get feedback. Please feel free to open a GitHub issue about how you'd rather work on these files from the superuser dashboard.

Thanks,

Phil

* http://guides.dataverse.org/en/4.7.1/installation/prep.html#vagrant-for-testing-only

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