Installation and Maintenance

Working with plugins and skins

Besides the core development of ILIAS, a lot of functionality is added to the system through plugins. The "Look and Feel" may be varied with skins.
All these configurations are stored in the Customizing Folder of your ILIAS installation. To prepare for the use of plugins and skins, you can create the following folder structure in advance:
 
Customizing

  • global
    • skins
    • plugins
      • Modules
        • TestQuestionPool
          • Questions
      • Services
        • UIComponent
          • UserInterfaceHook
        • Repository
          • RepositoryObject
 
To do so, change to your ILIAS installaton directory and use the following commands:

cd Customizing/
mkdir -p global/skin
cd global
mkdir -p plugins/Modules/TestQuestionPool/Questions
mkdir -p plugins/Services/UIComponent/UserInterfaceHook
mkdir -p plugins/Services/Reopsitory/RepositoryObject

Now you can download the plugins (or skins) to the proper directories. If the plugin is published via the ILIAS svn, it is advisable to checkout the plugin using the svn command. Other plugins can be downloaded from a web source and usually must be unzipped to their destination directory.
After that, enter the ILIAS Administration page/Plugins, Modules and Services. First click on "Administrate" for the appropriate plugin-slot (which corresponds to the installation directory for that plugin), then chose "update" for the plugin and subsequently "activate".
If needed, the plugin can be configured now and is ready to use.
 
The plugins "Ilias Mobile" and "LfMainMenu" are further explained in the following passages as examples for plugin installation and configuration



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