[Koha] Replacing existing images in Koha with our own
King, Fred
Fred.King at Medstar.net
Sat Mar 4 10:45:13 NZDT 2023
My last post for the day, I promise. I have dinner to cook.
When last we met, I had figured out how to make pictures and other files easily accessible from Koha by putting them in /usr/share/koha/opac/htdocs. That would make them directly available as, for example,
http://cheerfulvalleypl.online/nap_time.png
That had the disadvantage of being in the same folder structure as the Koha program files. If you don't want them there, you can create a symbolic link to, for example, /var/www/html. From the Ubuntu command line, type
ln -s /var/www/html /usr/share/koha/opac/htdocs
Then you can link to a file in a folder not in the Koha folder structure. For example, to display the file
/var/www/html/fred_king_mla.png
the web address is
http://cheerfulvalleypl.online/html/fred_king_mla.png
This works for PDF files as well. Probably pretty much any file type, but I've just tried those two. What I haven't figured out is how to get the /html out of the address. Linking to /var/www doesn't work. However, that's a very minor complication that I don't really care about.
Comments and suggestions welcome, especially if I've gotten something wrong. Especially that.
Fred King, MSLS, AHIP
Medical Librarian, MedStar Washington Hospital Center
fred.king at medstar.net
202-877-6670
ORCID 0000-0001-5266-0279
MedStar Authors Catalog: http://medstarauthors.org
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Hello Fred - I will have to do something, but I'll leave it for later :) It looks like you succeeded - I only see the one image!
Best regards
Aida Đikić
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From: King, Fred <Fred.King at Medstar.net>
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To: library at ssst.edu.ba
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Subject: RE: [Koha] Replacing existing images in Koha with our own
I'm working on this very problem as part of rebuilding the MedStar Authors catalog. As a workaround, you could try putting the images on a different server and linking to them. Take a look at cheerfulvalleypl.online. The image of the library is on http://dokument.space/cvl_library_300.jpg. If you see any other pictures, it means I may have figured something out but I'm going to work on it next week.
Fred King, MSLS, AHIP
Medical Librarian, MedStar Washington Hospital Center fred.king at medstar.net
202-877-6670
ORCID 0000-0001-5266-0279
MedStar Authors Catalog: http://medstarauthors.org
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Thank you, David, I had just tried this literally a few minutes ago! However I got several errors (expecting an RBRACE) that I didn't know how to fix. I ended up right-click > inspect page source, and using this snippet of code:
#logo {
background: transparent url(https://i.imgur.com/Cbn0f69.png) no-repeat scroll 0;
float: left!important;
padding: 0;
}
Unlike with the login image replacement, imgur did not add a pale overlay on top of the white Koha logo (I changed the background of the OPAC to a gradient from blue to red, which are our university colors so the green logo was clashing). I will continue to study the instructions over the weekend - I should have gone home two hours ago!
Best regards
Aida Đikić
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From: David Liddle <david at liddles.net>
Sent: Friday, March 3, 2023 5:59 PM
To: library at ssst.edu.ba
Cc: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: Re: [Koha] Replacing existing images in Koha with our own
Aida, there is another method that can be used, which is similar to what is described here:
https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/HTML_%26_CSS_Library#Change_logo_and_background_color_of_masthead.
You would be using the system preference IntranetUserCss perhaps together with StaffLoginInstructions to achieve your end result.
That's the method that our system uses. It doesn't change the fact that permissions and links need to be correct, and it doesn't change the possibility that files placed in the htdocs directory may be overwritten. One advantage that I can think of over the method you found is this: by defining the logo in IntranetUserCSS, the field StaffLoginInstructions is left free for instructions and messages only. Separating the two could reduce confusion and mistakes.
David
On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 4:24 PM library at ssst.edu.ba <library at ssst.edu.ba> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Another thing I don't understand is how to replace images (logos in
> the OPAC and the login etc.) with our own images. I have tried
> following instructions on
> https://www.vijenderkumar.com/2022/05/beautify-koha-staff-login-page.h
> tml
>
> >>Create an image for the logo or copy it from the institute's website. Save it in the home folder with the name 'logo.jpg'
> >>Open the terminal and run the following command to paste the logo
> >>image in htdocs folder from the home folder sudo cp logo.jpg
> >>/usr/share/koha/opac/htdocs Now Open koha Staff Interface koha
> >>administration➞ Global System Preferences➞Staff
> >>Client➞StaffLoginInstructions Add the following html scripts in the StaffLoginInstructions...
>
> How do I even save something to the home folder in the terminal?? When I tried using it to copy the image to /usr/share/koha/opac/htdocs nothing happened, so I asked one of our IT staff to install Filezilla for me so that I can at least move the files to these locations. I proceeded with the instructions and pasted the code to the StaffLoginInstructions, changed the IP: http://127.0.1.1 with our Koha OPAC IP but there's just a broken image where the logo is supposed to be. How in the world are others making these changes?
>
> Best regards
>
> Aida Đikić
>
>
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