Help with setting up CMS on my site

[dannyuk]

Hi,

I've recenlty installed CMS onto my site. Does it allow me to do the following, and how can i do it? :-

I want certain pages of my site to be edited by users. I already have a site, so can i just put my own pages that i've already created onto CMS? Users would then log on to CMS, go to the page they want to edit, change a few things, save it and then this would be updated to the live version of my site.

Thanks,

[RonnyK]

dannyuk,

that's the idea behind CMSMS, after creating the site, you can take the old content and paste it inside the content-area of the editor. After that you can select the additional editor, by clicking the user/users and save the content.

To make sure he/she cant modify all:
http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... l#msg73979

Ronny

[RonnyK]

I just modified.

Ronny

[dannyuk]

Thanks for the reply Ronny. I've currently got 2 of my pages on as a template. But now i have another problem, here goes.

My website address is
http://sitename.x10hosting.com/default.html   - Rite, lets say I have another few pages linked to my main page i.e :-
           -  /Page1.html
           -  /Page2.html
           -  /Page3.html

When I view the template I have created on CMS, my site address is now http://sitename.x10hosting.com/CMS.
How can i get this so it's my orignal site address, because now if I were to edit Page2.html & Page3.html they both have the same address

Thanks again,

Danny

[RonnyK]

Danny,

do I understand correctly. You have domain.com and CMSMS is installed in domain.com/CMS. You now want your domain to point at CMSMS by default, or are you trying to achieve something else?

IF you want to point at CMS without removing the original you can use URL-forward in the index of the main-site, that points at CMS, or use a url-rewrite in the .htaccess which replaces the domain.com with domain.com/cms if someone goes to domain.com.

ROnny

[dannyuk]

Hi again Ronny,

I'll try and explain a bit better.

My boss has asked if i could create a site so out cleints can log on to there own bit of the site. I work shifts so i'm not always in, so i need certain bits of the site to be edited by the other employees i work with as they know little about html etc. Things like reports uploaded (via CMS), pictures chaged (traffic lights for service status) and things like that. 

so...I have a site with CMS installed on it, the front page being http://domain.com/Default.html. Say I want pages //domain.com/Page2.html & //domain.com/Page3.html to be edited so they can upload their reports and change pictures (red, amber & green traffic light .gif files), and then save it.

I've gone on to my //domain.com/CMS/admin and copied the HTML of Page2.html from one of my completed pages into the Template section. Then if i view that page its domain name is //domain.com/CMS. I want it to be //domain.com/Page2.html beacuse it I go to that, it hasnt been updated with anything that i've changed via the CMS admin, it has though if i go on to //domain.com/CMS   ???

Thanks

Danny

[RonnyK]

Danny,


If I understand you correctly you want CMSMS to replace the Page2.html or Page3.html that you copied, to the templates.

As I described earlier, to edit those pages, you have to enter the admin (backend) and edit the pages. If you installed CMSMS in a subfolder of the domain, when entering CMSMS, it'll continu from there on, so indeed, the pages will be pulled, from under domain.com/CMS/.

You can use the rewrite_url logic, to act as if domain.com/page is opened/shown, while on the background it opens domain.com\CMS\page.

With the link I showed earlier, you can make sure that users can only edit their own pages.

So you can have them edit the pages from within CMSMS, and if you don't want /CMS/ to show in the URL you can use url_rewrite.

Ronny