New theme is not displayed following tutor documentation

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Installed the theme indigo on a local deployment of tutor’s openedx. But the indigo theme is not being displayed in local.overhang.io and studio.local.overhang.io.

The local deployment runs behind a web proxy that was set using this command.
tutor config save --set WEB_PROXY=true --set NGINX_HTTP_PORT=81 --set NGINX_HTTPS_PORT=444

To install the theme, ran the following commands successfully:

  1. tutor config render --extra-config ./indigo/config.yml --extra-config ./indigo/config_custom.yml ./indigo/theme "$(tutor config printroot)/env/build/openedx/themes/indigo"

  2. tutor images build openedx

  3. tutor local start -d

  4. tutor local settheme indigo $(tutor config printvalue LMS_HOST) $(tutor config printvalue CMS_HOST)

However. the default theme is still being displayed. Also tried the following to no avail.

ln -s "$(tutor config printroot)/env/build/openedx/themes/indigo/lms/templates" "$(tutor config printroot)/env/build/openedx/themes/indigo/lms/static/"

Any idea what could be the problem?

2

Hello,

Do you have theme installed in your tutor environment? env/build/openedx/themes directory must contain indigo directory

3

Yes, the indigo directory is inside the env/build/openedx/themes directory.

4

Which url are you viewing where the theme is not applied? Are you logged-in as a user?

5

Theme is not applied for both http://studio.local.overhang.io:81 and http://local.overhang.io:81. Even if I log in as the admin user, it’s the default theme that is displayed. The admin user was created from running tutor local createuser --staff --superuser adminuser someemail@domain.com

6

I am on MacOS Mojave but had created a docker group and added the Mac user to the group. However the Mac user has root privileges. Not sure if this is causing it. Should I rerun the whole tutor commands using a new MacOS user account without system or root privileges?

7

That explains it. If you access the LMS at local.overhang.io:81 then the theme should be associated to the local.overhang.io:81 hostname, not local.overhang.io. It’s the same in development, where the theme should be applied to local.overhang.io:8000 (see docs)

tl;dr: run:

tutor local settheme indigo $(tutor config printvalue LMS_HOST):81 $(tutor config printvalue CMS_HOST):81

And next time please specify how you access your platform: I incorrectly assumed that you accessed it via your custom web proxy.

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Thanks @regis! It is now being displayed.

My bad. As I was not yet keen on development work but was just exploring Openedx, I only read this part https://docs.tutor.overhang.io/local.html#setting-a-new-theme wrongly assuming that the port is being mapped out at the back end after running set WEB_PROXY as stated in the original post.

tutor config save --set WEB_PROXY=true --set NGINX_HTTP_PORT=81 --set NGINX_HTTPS_PORT=444