The system I am working on needs a good authentication (authn) and authorization (authz) system. So far, I can’t find anything that would work for me, so it looks like I’ll have to build one.

Before I got to writing my setup, I wanted to theme my blog. So, I went hunting for themes. There seems to be only one good repository of themes at the Mephisto Themes Gallery, and it doesn’t really have that many themes. Still, I found one I liked.

However, I didn’t find anywhere how to install the themes.

UPDATE You can install themes from the Mephisto Design area. It does seem to be easier if you have a zip file. Skip down if you want to manually add a theme to Mephisto.

Whew, that’s a mouthful of a title, however, I think it’s a good one. I wanted to catch as many keywords as I could because I had a heck of a time getting all of my stuff running, I had to piece it together from goo stretched all over the internet. But you’re reading it now, and here’s how I did it.