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Building Websites with ExpressionEngine 2

By : Leonard Murphy
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Building Websites with ExpressionEngine 2

By: Leonard Murphy

Overview of this book

<p>ExpressionEngine is a flexible, feature-rich content management system used by top designers and web professionals across the world to build and manage their websites. It is written in the world's most popular web scripting language, PHP, and built on the MySQL database server. Are you eager to start creating websites with ExpressionEngine?<br /><br />Written for ExpressionEngine version 2.1 and later, this book will give you clear, concise, and practical guidance to take you from the basics of setting up ExpressionEngine to developing the skills you need to create ExpressionEngine websites to be reckoned with.<br /><br />You will begin with setting up a basic installation of ExpressionEngine. You will then learn how it works, before learning how to create and manage your website in ExpressionEngine. As you progress further into the book you will learn how to build an events calendar and how to build a photo gallery and before you know it, visitors to your website will be able to post comments, search your content, sign-up for a mailing list, and even send their friends an e-mail. As you consider the benefits of buying this book, you will learn how to manage members and member groups, how to optimize your website and avoid repetition, how to remove the index.php file for cleaner URLs, and how to take backups. At the end of the book, you will learn how to update ExpressionEngine to its latest version.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building Websites with ExpressionEngine 2
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Solutions to Exercises

Logging into the control panel


You have already taken steps to mask where your installation files are by renaming the system directory. Taking this one step further, you can change where you log into the control panel, so that you do not reveal your installation directory when you give others access to the control panel.

  1. 1. Copy the file /system/index.php and rename the copy to admin.php.

  2. 2. Move the copy to the root of the ExpressionEngine website.

  3. 3. Next, using a text editor such as Wordpad, open admin.php and search for the line $system_path = "";. Inside the double quotes, type ./system (replacing system with the name you chose for your system directory). Then save and close the file.

  4. 4. Now try logging in to the control panel by pointing a browser at http://localhost/admin.php and using the username and password chosen during installation.

    Note

    If, instead of the username/password prompt, you get a message that says that your system folder path does not appear to be set correctly, try...