Editing Publisher:Beyond-Social (section)

== Install the BeyondSocial skin and customize your own ==

The Beyond Social skin is based on the Vector skin and is implemented in a Mediawiki 1.28 installation. Make sure you install this version or higher. It is recommended to make an installation of MediaWiki locally, where you can test your changes to the skin.

Install MediaWiki in the /var/www/html/ of your server or computer by following the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_guide MediaWiki installation guide] into a folder called &quot;wiki&quot; for example.

Download or clone the BeyondSocial-wiki git repository in the /var/www/html/ of your server or computer.

<pre>cd /var/www/html/

git clone https://github.com/wdka-publicationSt/BeyondSocial-wiki.git</pre>
It will create a folder called BeyondSocial-wiki that contains one folder called &quot;skins&quot; in which the BeyondSocial skin is located. If you want to rename the skin to make it your own, there is a useful command line tool called &quot;rename&quot;, to rename all the BeyondSocial / beyondsocial / Beyond Social mentions to your own name.

Copy all the files of your MediaWiki installation from the folder &quot;wiki&quot; to the folder &quot;BeyondSocial-wiki&quot; EXCEPT the &quot;skins&quot; folder.

<pre>cd /var/www/html/wiki/

cp -r !(skins) ../BeyondSocial-wiki</pre>
You can copy the deafult wiki skins if you want to have these available too.

<pre> cp -r skins/Vector ../BeyondSocial-wiki/skins/

 cp -r skins/Monobook ../BeyondSocial-wiki/skins/

 cp -r skins/Modern ../BeyondSocial-wiki/skins/

 cp -r skins/CologneBlue ../BeyondSocial-wiki/skins/</pre>
Remove the &quot;wiki&quot; folder, and rename the BeyondSocial-wiki folder to &quot;wiki&quot;.

<pre>cd /var/www/html/

rm -r wiki

mv BeyondSocial-wiki wiki</pre>
To make the BeyondSocial skin your default skin, edit the settings in the LocalSettings.php file that is located in the main &quot;wiki&quot; folder.

<pre>cd /var/www/html/wiki/

nano LocalSettings.php</pre>
Firstly, the skin need to be loaded by MediaWiki. Enable the Beyond Social skin by adding this line (with the Uppercases in place!):

<pre>wfLoadSkin( 'BeyondSocial' );</pre>
Edit the line that sets the default skin to the following (all lowercase!):

<pre>$wgDefaultSkin = &quot;beyondsocial&quot;;</pre>
Exit nano with CTRL+X, and type a Y to save the changes. Now go to your MediaWiki installation through the browser and see if it worked!

<pre>localhost/wiki (for local installations)

example.com/wiki/ (for server installations)</pre>