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<h1 class="SECT1"><a name="TEMPLATES" id="TEMPLATES">10. Privoxy's
Template Files</a></h1>
<p>All <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> built-in pages, i.e.
error pages such as the <a href="http://show-the-404-error.page" target=
"_top"><span class="QUOTE">"404 - No Such Domain"</span> error page</a>,
the <a href="http://ads.bannerserver.example.com/nasty-ads/sponsor.html"
target="_top"><span class="QUOTE">"BLOCKED"</span> page</a> and all pages
of its <a href="http://config.privoxy.org/" target="_top">web-based user
interface</a>, are generated from <span class="emphasis"><i class=
"EMPHASIS">templates</i></span>. (<span class=
"APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> must be running for the above links to work
as intended.)</p>
<p>These templates are stored in a subdirectory of the <a href=
"config.html#CONFDIR">configuration directory</a> called <tt class=
"FILENAME">templates</tt>. On Unixish platforms, this is typically
<a href="file:///etc/privoxy/templates/" target="_top"><tt class=
"FILENAME">/etc/privoxy/templates/</tt></a>.</p>
<p>The templates are basically normal HTML files, but with place-holders
(called symbols or exports), which <span class=
"APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> fills at run time. It is possible to edit
the templates with a normal text editor, should you want to customize
them. (<span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Not recommended for the
casual user</i></span>). Should you create your own custom templates, you
should use the <tt class="FILENAME">config</tt> setting <a href=
"config.html#TEMPLDIR">templdir</a> to specify an alternate location, so
your templates do not get overwritten during upgrades.</p>
<p>Note that just like in configuration files, lines starting with
<tt class="LITERAL">#</tt> are ignored when the templates are filled
in.</p>
<p>The place-holders are of the form <tt class="LITERAL">@name@</tt>, and
you will find a list of available symbols, which vary from template to
template, in the comments at the start of each file. Note that these
comments are not always accurate, and that it's probably best to look at
the existing HTML code to find out which symbols are supported and what
they are filled in with.</p>
<p>A special application of this substitution mechanism is to make whole
blocks of HTML code disappear when a specific symbol is set. We use this
for many purposes, one of them being to include the beta warning in all
our user interface (CGI) pages when <span class=
"APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is in an alpha or beta development
stage:</p>
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<!-- @if-unstable-start -->
... beta warning HTML code goes here ...
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<p>If the "unstable" symbol is set, everything in between and including
<tt class="LITERAL">@if-unstable-start</tt> and <tt class=
"LITERAL">if-unstable-end@</tt> will disappear, leaving nothing but an
empty comment:</p>
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<p>There's also an if-then-else construct and an <tt class=
"LITERAL">#include</tt> mechanism, but you'll sure find out if you are
inclined to edit the templates ;-)</p>
<p>All templates refer to a style located at <a href=
"http://config.privoxy.org/send-stylesheet" target="_top"><tt class=
"LITERAL">http://config.privoxy.org/send-stylesheet</tt></a>. This is, of
course, locally served by <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> and
the source for it can be found and edited in the <tt class=
"FILENAME">cgi-style.css</tt> template.</p>
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