178624 - template customisation documentation does not tell to run checksetup.pl

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: Documentation, defect, P2)

Description

[Joseph Vallot]

as doc says, I have "cp" template/en/default/* into a new template/en/custom
directory, then modified banner.html.tmpl... and I can't see my changes :(

I also tried a minor change to index.html.tmpl: not better...

obviously, changing default/index.html.tmpl works.

so, what's wrong?

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Did you run checksetup.pl after adding your new templates?

Comment 2

[Joseph Vallot]

that's it!

I changed summary from "can't make template customisation work" to "template
customisation documentation does not tell to run checksetup.pl" ;))

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

I'll go for that.

Comment 4

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

IT shouldn't have just failed silently, though. The only case where I could see
this maybe happeningis if the wbbserver has read access to the default/
template, but not the custom/ one - could that have been happening?

Comment 5

[Joseph Vallot]

it is possible: install user is not apache user on our system, and we got some
403 errors (not related to this problem): may be I forgot to chown "custom"
directory before testing... 

if I chown back "custom" dir to install user, bugzilla displays default
templates: where is it suppose to log some error?

Comment 6

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Matthew is still going to be around to help out, but Jake is taking over the
day-to-day front-line triage type stuff for Documentation

Comment 7

[pathway]

Debian install (using prepackaged .deb files from Testing build) has the same
problem, yet running checksetup.pl does NOT make bugzilla read from the /custom/
directory. May be debian-specific problem, not sure.

Comment 8

[Jacob Steenhagen]

Added a note to both 2.16 and the tip documentation.