Keycloak custom theme build and run in Windows

To build and run a custom theme in Keycloak, you’ll need to follow these steps:

1. Set up a Keycloak development environment:

• Download and install Keycloak. You can find the latest version on the Keycloak website.
• Extract the downloaded package to a directory on to your local machine.
• Open the command prompt and navigate to the Keycloak installation directory.
• Inside the Keycloak installation directory, navigate to the providers directory.

2.Place your custom-theme.jar file in the providers directory

Place your custom-theme.jar file in providers folder , navigate to the bin folder and then run the following command on command prompt

kc.sh build

once the build is completed then run

kc.bat start-dev

then keycloak server will start →

. Open http://localhost:8080/

Note: In case if you want to run the keycloak with different port (for Ex:9090) using CLI , then run the above command as below

kc.bat start-dev --http-port 9090

. Login as a admin and password as a admin

. Go to Relam settings , click on themes menu

. Select the Login theme dropdown and select the custom-theme from the list.

.Logout and Restart the server and check for the customised login theme .

3.changes to custom-theme

.if you make any changes to custom-theme then follow the steps

mvn clean install 

then

mvn package 

after package take the custom-theme.jar from target folder and follow the steps 2