How to change Zimbra Welcome page

Question

I have configured a zimbra mail server. It is working fine. But I want to make one of my own html page as welcome file before login page. I have tried to edit the web.xml file but it is of no use. please can you tell me how to do that?

Solution

Unsure if my answer is useful, but wouldn't you look for answer at

• (active forums) community.zimbra.com, or
• (archived forums) forums.zimbra.com

For example:

• Changing ZWC (Zimbra Web Client) Theme Colors and Logo in zimbra administration_guide
• Zimbra Forum: Changing Zimbra 7.0 Login Screen

The default theme for zimbraAdmin, zimbra and zimlets are all set using a config file for the web application.

look in jetty/etc/zimbra.web.xml.in

See! Zimbra stores initial parameters in *.in files. These files are templates which will be populated with actual values on every restart of ZCS. So, to make your changes permanent, you must modify .in file, corresponding to file you want to change.

I found this when attempted to modify ZCS' postfix parameters. .in-files have zimbra:zimbra:600 permissions, so you must use sudo su - zimbra.

Do not forget to make backups of .in-files BEFORE any modifications!!! Because they're templates, you may unintentionally broke something with just one extra character or punctuation mark.

Comments

[Troublemaker-DV]

Hope, it will help you.

[JoGe]

Remember that many of these templates are overrun when Zimbra is upgraded. You will have to re-check these files after upgrade.

[Troublemaker-DV]

@vtorhonen, you're right. That's why before every upgrade I made rsync-ed complete copy of /opt/zimbra to have a possibility to compare the templates and config in order to re-enter my changes.

[Troublemaker-DV]

Or I save my edited .in under .in.my extension to easen the comparison process.