[Geoserver-users] Styling the Admin page of a server

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Hi List,
I have two different sets of GeoServer instances which are doing different things. The problem is they all have admin pages that look identical. The only difference is a single digit in the URL bar for which port they’re coming from. And a different digit difference for if they’re on a different server (live/test).
I haven’t yet managed to set something on the wrong server, but it’s only a matter of time.

Is there an easy way to restyle the GeoServer admin interface? I’m not looking for anything fancy; even just the ability to recolour the background would be useful (a very light shade of a colour would allow instant differentiation between servers - works wonderfully work remote desktops).
And/Or maybe the server name in big letters at the top?

How do other people handle this issue?

Regards,
Jonathan

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Hi Jonathan,
Hi Jonathan,

yes, pain in the butt this, noticing suddenly -- ooops I am fiddling around
with the production server not the test server as I thought.

web-core-2.3.3.jar

directory org/geoserver/web/img

a good candidate is: page-header-bg.png, which is now pink. Another would be
main-bg.png

http://lctest.land.vic.gov.au/cm/test_instance.gif

I rather doubt the community would approve of this pink, but it helps me to
distinguish.

Cheers

Christian

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Hi Christian,
Somehow I’d never realised the jars could be uncompressed. I can be a bit slow. :slight_smile:

However, you’re right that does allow one potential solution. With a little tweaking there’s one that I think is even easier than yours (no image manipulation required), plus has a more noticeable effect. Basically editing the css colour for the header - I’ve opened a JIRA suggesting it as an improvement which details the file and line - http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-5964

Some examples:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B22cYd3gwE-6WjlISXBmREFHb1U
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B22cYd3gwE-6ZWlHRmdTZ2VjOUk
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B22cYd3gwE-6d1hGaUFLOWFzS0E

The downside of course is that like yours, it has to be re-implemented every upgrade (which we’re doing monthly currently). Hence the suggestion.

Thanks!
Jonathan

On 9 August 2013 00:46, cmaul <Christian.Maul@anonymised.com> wrote:

Hi Jonathan,
Hi Jonathan,

yes, pain in the butt this, noticing suddenly – ooops I am fiddling around
with the production server not the test server as I thought.

web-core-2.3.3.jar

directory org/geoserver/web/img

a good candidate is: page-header-bg.png, which is now pink. Another would be
main-bg.png

http://lctest.land.vic.gov.au/cm/test_instance.gif

I rather doubt the community would approve of this pink, but it helps me to
distinguish.

Cheers

Christian

Dr Christian Maul
Project Manager

Information Services Branch
Department of Sustainability and Environment
Level13, Marland House, 570 Bourke Street
Melbourne 3000

PO Box 500, East Melbourne Vic 3002

Telephone: +61-3-8636 2325
Telefax: +61-3-8636 2813

View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Styling-the-Admin-page-of-a-server-tp5069841p5071652.html
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