[image] what does this mean

You could do it on the rails console. Take a look at the code for the theme importer to see how: app/controllers/admin/themes_controller.rb main end if @theme.save log_theme_change(nil, @theme) render json: s…

Did you add the deploy key to the repository? [image] Install a theme from a private git repository Paste in the public key into your git repo so it is the used as a “deploy key” [image.png]

Great, thanks for confirming. What version of Discourse are you on? Can you confirm that the about.json file in the theme doesn’t have any syntax errors? Newer versions of Discourse give you much clearer messages in the case of incorrect json syntax, but I have to ask since I don’t know what vers…

this is the version [image] and here is the about.json [image] I am running dicourse in my local lab (on a vm ). I need the color scheme to be imported along with theme, I tried with local theme export and then import but no luck with the color scheme.

Can you upload the about.json file here, so we can test it?

about.json (590 Bytes) here the about.json

Importing that works for me. Here’s it wrapped up in a .tar.gz file for import: test-theme.tar.gz (785 Bytes) Can you describe the exact steps you are taking which cause the error?

Thank you David, I tried the file uploaded and it worked with me. Regarding the steps of importing my remote theme as follow and I still face issue. I used discourse theme CLI and then put in github as private, I then import from the web as bellow [image] After I click import it take a while th…

Can you try using theme-creator.discourse.org to import the private git theme, and see if you get the same error? 502 is not an error that should be thrown by import issues… it suggests there could be something wrong with your local discourse setup.

successfully imported in http://theme-creator.discourse.org/ So it is about my discourse setup :confounded:

My broken Discourse install prevents theme import

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Johani (Joe) February 7, 2019, 8:43am 2

Did you add the deploy key to the repository?

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