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Hello everyone, I have sort of asked this question in another post but I need to know what is going on. For starters I have created my own template from my existing site. Then I made up a new page for practicing. I have noticed the links in the browser being as follows

http://www.greggordonphotography.com/cm ... /login.php

This address I was assuming would just be my test site but I think it looks like it now wants to be my index page had I uploaded the cmsmadesimple folder differently.

http://www.greggordonphotography.com/cmsmadesimple/

what do you think?

Tracy,

I don't get your question completely. You installed CMSMS, in a subfolder "cmsmadesimple" under your root-domain.
That means that when you go to www.domain.com/ everything points at the original site, only if you use www.domain.com/cmsmadesimple/ it will use CMSMS, also, www.domain.com/cmsmadesimple/admin will give the backend-login.

If you've changed the name www.domain.com/cmsmadesimple/ after installing CMSMS, you've to edit the config.php there to reflect the new paths.

What is the issue you're experiencing?

Ronny

Looks like you unpacked it and then FTPed the whole folder and not the contents...

Since CMSMS uses index.php not index.html you could have uploaded the folders/files in the cmsmadesimple folder to your root and left the existing site while you work on the CMSMS site till it was ready then just rename/delete the index.html and the new one will take over...

What I did was download the zip, unzipped it then uploaded the folder and all its contents into the www or root folder. So I gather this index.php is inside. This would be a subfolder in fact then correct?

So, I really thought that I was playing around to get used to it but I actually uploaded this test page (which I designed creating my own template from my site) which is now located here  http://www.greggordonphotography.com/cmsmadesimple/

www.greggordonphotography.com has been online for a number of months but I built his site and he is a friend of mine so I was using his server/domain to start out. So all his html files are in the www and subfolder for images etc.

In the admin area under content / pages the list is Home, How CMSMS works, default templates, default extentions.  So did I actually upload my test site in place of the HOME and this being index.php?

To get back on track here, what do I do now? Instead of uploading the folder (with the contents) should I have opened the folder and then individually uploaded all the contents into the www as well as the config.php. And what would this do to his existing site.

I don't know how much detail I need to go into for you to understand me and vice versa. Another this is I'm not sure what the config file really is.

Thanks, I know I will get it but I am a bit new, a bit slow and a bit nervous about doing something to this site and not being able to correct it.

When you login/go to greggordonphotography.com/cmsmadesimple/  the HOME page you see is home/index.php of greggordonphotography.com/cmsmadesimple/...

When you go to greggordonphotography.com/ you go to/see index.html...

If you don't want to move it to the root of the server later you may want to put admin, doc, images, install, lib, modules, plugins, etc. etc. in the root now and reinstall it, no one will see it unless the put index.php on the end of greggordonphotography.com/, try putting it on now you will see an error 'page not found'...

I don't know what your template looks like now but this may be...
just from body to /body...


 
   
{menu items='about,contact,links'}  the items= are alias page names of pages marked not shown in menu
   
   
      Image Categories
      {menu}
   
   
    {content}
   
   
     
        © Greg Gordon Photography & Graphics - Duncan, B.C., - E-mail
        gr_gordon@shaw.ca
        tel: 250.748.1786

        web design by
        "Catfish Web Creations"
     
   
 

Ok, now I'm really upset. I thought it would be easiest to just delete/uninstall the whole CMSMS and redo it all from scratch, and hopefully into the correct directory. No such luck. Now I can't even get to the install screen again. I'm frustrated and don't know how to ask the proper questions now.

Well this delema is solved. Thanks for the help

I was going to say...

I tried http://www.greggordonphotography.com/install/  and it was ready to go...

  good luck and hang in there it's worth it... really...