Enable and apply a default theme

edX provides some default themes that you can find in the /opt/bitnami/apps/edx/edx-platform/themes/ directory. To enable and apply a default theme for edX, follow the steps in the sequence shown:

• Enable the theme on edX.
• Apply the theme in the Django administration panel.
• Build assets for the default theme.

Enable a default theme

• To enable a default theme for LMS, open the /opt/bitnami/apps/edx/conf/lms.env.json file and edit the “COMPREHENSIVE_THEME_DIRS” and the “ENABLE_COMPREHENSIVE_THEMING” variables to make them look like this:

  "COMPREHENSIVE_THEME_DIRS": [
      "/opt/bitnami/apps/edx/edx-platform/themes"
      "/opt/bitnami/apps/edx/var/themes"
  ],
  ...
  "ENABLE_COMPREHENSIVE_THEMING": true,
  

• To enable a default theme for CMS, open the /opt/bitnami/apps/edx/conf/cms.env.json file and perform the same changes described above.

Apply a default theme

• Access the Django administration console. Check the Django Admin Console instructions for more information.
• Browse to “Theming -> Site themes -> Add site theme”.
• From the “Site menu”, select the site you want to apply a theme to.

• Enter the identifier of the theme (same as its directory name) and click on “Save”. In the example below, the selected default theme is “red-theme”.

  

  The theme will be enabled for the specified site as it is shown below:

  

Build assets for a custom theme

• If you enabled the custom theme for LMS, update LMS assets:

  $ sudo /opt/bitnami/apps/edx/bin/edxapp-update-assets-lms
  

• If you enabled the custom theme for CMS, update CMS assets:

  $ sudo /opt/bitnami/apps/edx/bin/edxapp-update-assets-cms
  

• Restart the Apache server:

  $ sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart apache