Admin Settings - Site Url
The next thing we are going to learn is how to set your new Article Friendly site's
URL. This is the address that your installed Article Friendly to, and we are going to assume you put it into your domain's WWW root folder.
Why Set The URL?
What you enter into your admin section site url setting is used (appended) to each of your pages. For example, your css file uses this, and without the correct url, your site's pages would have no CSS formatting.
The first thing you need to do is login to your admin section. If you installed to mydomain.com, then your www url to the admin section would be http://www.mydomain.com/admin (unless you manually changed the admin folder name, then you'd use that instead!). Your default user/pass for admin can be found in the docs folder inside the install.doc file.
Immediately after logging into your admin section, you will be at your admin site settings page. Let's keep your admin section open while we go thru each field in your admin site settings page. The first text field is for your site's URL setting. Enter the www url to your Article Friendly site in that text field overwriting the default text. Enter it in this fashion - http://www.articlefriendly.com/. Be sure to use your own domain's name and not mine :-)
Be sure the forward slash ( / ) is at the end of the URL! If so, go to the bottom of the admin settings page and save the change.
If you installed Article Friendly into subdomain of "articles", you would enter the www URL like this - http://www.articles.articlefriendly.com/ , or if you installed it in a subdirectory called "articles" you'd enter it like this - http://www.articlefriendly.com/articles/. If you installed to an addon domain, you enter it as though a direct url to the domain name.
Be sure to click on the "Update" button at the bottom of the site settings page to save your changes!
IMPORTANT! If you set your site URL, and you know it's correct, but when you view your site's front end pages and there is no CSS formatting, it's probably due to your browser's cache saves. Clear the browser's cache completely and you should then be able to see your site with the CSS formatting applied correctly.
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Site Name Setting.
Next thing to change on this page is the Site Name. This would be whatever you've chosen for the name of your Article Friendly site! Fill that text field in with your site's name, and click on the "Update" button at the bottom of the page, then click the "next" button at the bottom of this page to continue on!
