I've installed CMSMS and now I'm sitting wondering what to do with the pages provided by the installation.
Obviously I don't want the 'front' page of my website to be the initial CMSMS page but on the other hand I don't want to lose it and its links to other CMSMS help and information.
I'm also wondering whether to move the installation. It's currently at /cms but I want to use it to maintain the pages at the root of . It's not clear (to me anyway) how to handle this so that one can keep the supplied CMSMS tree from the installation at the same time as creating one's own personal/company site.
What does one do with the initial pages that come with CMSMS?
Re: What does one do with the initial pages that come with CMSMS?
The easiest way is to create a new homepage. Because the templates use the "home" alias for the breadcrumbs you'll have to change the page alias of the current homepage:
* follow "Content" -> "Pages" in the admin menu
* click the "Home" page name or edit icon besides it
* click the "Options" tab
* change the "Page Alias" from "home" to something else ("default-home" for example)
* uncheck "Show in Menu"
* click the "Submit" button to save the changes
* click the "Add New Content" link at the bottom of the table
* give the page a Title ("Default Content" for example)
* enter the Menu Text ("Default Content" for example)
* enter some contents for your new contents
* click the "Options" tab
* enter the "Page Alias" "home"
* click the "Submit" button to save the changes
* click the red cross in the "Default" column besides your new home page to make it the default page
* move it up to the top
* follow "Content" -> "Pages" in the admin menu
* click the "Home" page name or edit icon besides it
* click the "Options" tab
* change the "Page Alias" from "home" to something else ("default-home" for example)
* uncheck "Show in Menu"
* click the "Submit" button to save the changes
* click the "Add New Content" link at the bottom of the table
* give the page a Title ("Default Content" for example)
* enter the Menu Text ("Default Content" for example)
* enter some contents for your new contents
* click the "Options" tab
* enter the "Page Alias" "home"
* click the "Submit" button to save the changes
* click the red cross in the "Default" column besides your new home page to make it the default page
* move it up to the top
Re: What does one do with the initial pages that come with CMSMS?
You can make a section header and put all the default pages under it then start making new pages, home would be a good one to start with...
administrator
As far as subfolders and cmsms you can develop it in the sub folder then move it to the root when you are ready...
How?...
Copy all files/folders to root, edit config.php paths such as...
#Document root as seen from the webserver. No slash at the end
#e.g. http://blah.com
$config['root_url'] = 'http://www.multiintech.com/subfolder';
Would be...
#Document root as seen from the webserver. No slash at the end
#e.g. http://blah.com
$config['root_url'] = 'http://www.multiintech.com';
And on down the line all paths just need the subfolder taken out, subfolder would be what ever you named it, in your case /cms...
administrator
As far as subfolders and cmsms you can develop it in the sub folder then move it to the root when you are ready...
How?...
Copy all files/folders to root, edit config.php paths such as...
#Document root as seen from the webserver. No slash at the end
#e.g. http://blah.com
$config['root_url'] = 'http://www.multiintech.com/subfolder';
Would be...
#Document root as seen from the webserver. No slash at the end
#e.g. http://blah.com
$config['root_url'] = 'http://www.multiintech.com';
And on down the line all paths just need the subfolder taken out, subfolder would be what ever you named it, in your case /cms...
