Things are looking up
So the Manakin problem that had me tearing my hair out last week was a constellation of Tomcat configuration issues. Tomcat, as I believe I have mentioned before, gives me ulcers. The problems are solved, however, and I hope not to run into them again. If you want to know what they were, ask the local sysadmin, who groks Tomcat so I don’t have to.
Anyway, so Manakin was up, but it wasn’t paying the least attention to my new theme. I scratched my head. I fiddled. I checked out the DSpace wiki. I IMed Tim, who didn’t know what to tell me.
And then I figured it out. The xmlui.xconf file has to be replaced in the working DSpace directory, not in dspace-source. I did that, and hey presto! I have one deathly ugly Manakin theme up and running.
Holy hell, is it ever ugly. Where did my navbar go, for starters? And my logo?
But at least now I can beat on it until it works!
And in other good news, I was wrong! Yep, sometimes that’s good news. The conference organizers weren’t in the market for happytalk, so I am back on the menu. More news when I have it.