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By nick1008 on
Although, the Internet seems inundated with drupal tutorials, here's an issue I still haven't figured out:
Normally, when working with CMSs you have the backend and the frontend separated. Like, for example, if you use another CMS you would have a separate url to adminster the site:
And the url where all the stuff I create is visible at:
How does this work in Drupal?
Sure, I can ad content, users and what have you - but how do I create an actual site that is separate from the drupal backend...?
Cheers,
Comments
Drupal is a little bit
Drupal is a little bit different ;-)
You can hide the login block, so you will only have access to the login via http://sitename.com/user
If you want to work in the backend and check the frontend simultaneously I recommend to use two different browsers. One for the back, the other for the frontend.
Let me know if this answer does help and if not, maybe you can ask more precisely what you need/want.
Have a nice day and welcome to the Drupaluniverse!
Lazy follow-up
Thanks, that cleared it up - conceptually.
Will now try my hands at it!
Cool :) Good luck and have
Cool :)
Good luck and have fun!
how to open front end
that was right but what will be the url of front end ?is there is need to write extra?
please help
Regards
.... the same.
.... the same.
You can, as Funana said, hide
You can, as Funana said, hide the log-in block by disabling it in the admin/blocks area or you can also make that block visible only to certain users. Likewise, I keep two browsers open. One has my front-end -- that's Firefox with firebug enabled. The other is Explorer for back-end, where I also keep a tab open to the performance page in admin as I seem to use that often for cache clearing. Makes life easier.
Looks like I locked myself out
Disabled the login in the block section. Can't login now..
Is there a way to bring up the login in the url?
/?q=login or so?
UNset what I just did in mysql? How?
visit user/login
visit user/login
The Devil is in the details..
Like this?
www.mysite.com/<my drupal installation root>/<my drupal login name>/login
/user
It's easy. Just go to http://www.yourdomain.com/user. That's where you log in.
doesn't work
drupal_root/user doesn't work
user is "user" or my user-name?
Tried both, none of them work.
Message is "not found"
Now replying to my own posts..
Ok, I am not using clean urls, hence:
http://mysite.com/?q=user
Pew!
the "Drupal path" is the part
the "Drupal path" is the part after the q= or after the hostname+root path.
sample.com/user/login
sample.com/drupal/user/login
sample.com/?q=user/login
sample.com/drupal/?q=user/login
The Drupal path in all cases is "user/login" and that's what you'll see in the forums most often.