{"id":626,"date":"2020-09-07T17:53:23","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T11:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/?p=626"},"modified":"2020-09-07T17:53:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T11:53:23","slug":"how-to-install-zimbra-universal-ui-theme-on-zimbra-8-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/how-to-install-zimbra-universal-ui-theme-on-zimbra-8-8.html","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Zimbra Universal UI Theme on Zimbra 8.8.*"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>WHAT IS ZIMBRA UNIVERSAL UI<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zimbra universal UI is a theme by Zimbra, that is much more modern, professional looking theme, looks much near to Outlook theme. According to Zimbra, this is still in Beta since 2017, and not available anywhere unfortunately to install\/download it from Zimbra until you are using one of the Zimbra Cloud by Zimbra Inc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HOW DID WE MANAGE TO GET ZIMBRA UNIVERSAL UI?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zeta Alliance had released an unofficial Zimbra 8.8.5 with the Zimbra Universal UI theme in it, that is downloadable here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/zetalliance.org\/zcs-8.8.5_GA_2000.RHEL7_64.20171222124635.tgz\">zcs-8.8.5_GA_2000.RHEL7_64.20171222124635.tgz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We installed it and tweaked the ZUU theme to be able to use in any Zimbra 8.8.* version available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HOW TO INSTALL ZIMBRA UNIVERSAL UI<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First keep a copy of zimbra folder:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"generic\" data-enlighter-theme=\"\" data-enlighter-highlight=\"\" data-enlighter-linenumbers=\"\" data-enlighter-lineoffset=\"\" data-enlighter-title=\"\" data-enlighter-group=\"\">rsync -vrplogDtH \/opt\/zimbra\/jetty\/webapps\/zimbra \/root\/zimbra_backup<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, download a copy of the zimbra UI from here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"generic\" data-enlighter-theme=\"\" data-enlighter-highlight=\"\" data-enlighter-linenumbers=\"\" data-enlighter-lineoffset=\"\" data-enlighter-title=\"\" data-enlighter-group=\"\">wget https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/downloads\/zimbra-ui.tgz<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Untar and migrate to zimbra folder:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"generic\" data-enlighter-theme=\"\" data-enlighter-highlight=\"\" data-enlighter-linenumbers=\"\" data-enlighter-lineoffset=\"\" data-enlighter-title=\"\" data-enlighter-group=\"\">tar -xvzf zimbra-ui.tgz\nrsync -vrplogDtH zimbra\/ \/opt\/zimbra\/jetty\/webapps\/zimbra\/<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>(Optional) This will install a new theme called &#8216;clarity&#8217; which is our Zimbra Universal UI theme. You may either use this, and advise your users to choose this as a theme, or replace the default Harmony with this one. To do this, you may do the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"generic\" data-enlighter-theme=\"\" data-enlighter-highlight=\"\" data-enlighter-linenumbers=\"\" data-enlighter-lineoffset=\"\" data-enlighter-title=\"\" data-enlighter-group=\"\">cd \/opt\/zimbra\/jetty\/webapps\/zimbra\/skins\nmv harmony harmony_old\nln -sf clarity harmony<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>This is done only by creating a softlink for old harmony to clarity theme<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now fix the permissions and restart zimbra to make everything work:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"generic\" data-enlighter-theme=\"\" data-enlighter-highlight=\"\" data-enlighter-linenumbers=\"\" data-enlighter-lineoffset=\"\" data-enlighter-title=\"\" data-enlighter-group=\"\"># Fix permission\n\/opt\/zimbra\/libexec\/zmfixperms -v\nservice zimbra restart<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>You may now access Zimbra from your browser to see the new theme loading. If you are having trouble with the http access for your webmail, you may use the following to redirect your http webmail to https webmails<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-mellowhost-blog\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"AGURuqqUVp\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/how-to-redirect-http-to-https-zimbra-8-8.html\">How to Redirect HTTP to HTTPs Zimbra 8.8.*<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;How to Redirect HTTP to HTTPs Zimbra 8.8.*&#8221; &#8212; Mellowhost Blog\" src=\"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/how-to-redirect-http-to-https-zimbra-8-8.html\/embed#?secret=AGURuqqUVp\" data-secret=\"AGURuqqUVp\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHAT IS ZIMBRA UNIVERSAL UI Zimbra universal UI is a theme by Zimbra, that is much more modern, professional looking theme, looks much near to Outlook theme. 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