Management of CMS applications (Content Managers)

A content manager, or CMS (Content Management System) is a tool for web servers that allows the user to create, manage and publish web content without having advanced knowledge of programming, since from its interface the content of the website is controlled, maintained and published. As its name suggests, it is a system that allows us to manage content.

Depending on our needs, we will choose one or another content manager. These are some of the most popular:

• Wordpress: Creation of web pages. Very popular for blogs.
• PrestaShop: Creation of online stores.
• Moodle: A great gestor for education.

From SW Panel you have several ways to deploy some content managers:

• Services Domain in Cloud or Hosting: Activates a CMS application in a matter of minutes from SW Panel.
• Cloud & Apps: Create a new Cloud with your preferred manager pre-installed, or even connect to the Cloud to install yourself the one that best suits your needs.

We explain below how to do it in both ways.

Install CMS application in Hosting service or Linux Domain in Cloud

Access SW Panel and go to the corresponding service Dashboard:

💡 Use the search engine at the top to quickly locate your service.

In the CMS Application Management section you can install the content manager of your choice:

You can only have one CMS application active at the same time.

Then click on Yes, install.

Your content manager will be installed in a matter of minutes.

From this same section, you can uninstall the CMS application.

The next step is to perform the initial configuration of the selected CMS application, we explain it below.

Initial Wordpress configuration

When you have installed it, and email was send to the account you have defined, with the access credentials to your Wordpress. In a matter of minutes we have your Wordpress installed:

To access the WordPress administration panel add /wp-admin/ to the end of your web address. For example: http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/ https://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/

Here you must enter the username and password that was sent to you, at the time of installation, by email:

Remember that if you require additional technical support about Wordpress, you should consult its documentation or its technical support service. For quality reasons, we do not offer additional technical support on external software.

Initial configuration of PrestaShop

The PrestaShop CMS manager requires you to finish the configuration manually, for this you must do the following:

1. Once the installation is complete, access your domain. You should see a screen like the following:

   

   Here you must choose the language of the installation. Click on "Next to continue".

2. Then you must accept the terms and conditions of the license agreement, and if you agree, check the checkbox as you accept and click Next:

   

3. Later, information about your new online store will be requested. Once entered click Next:

   

4. In this step you must configure the connection of PrestaShop with the database. By default the correct data is set, if you want to change it you can do it now:

   

   Then click on Check the connection to your database !, the following message should appear:

   The database is connected

   If it is not correct, check the entered data.

5. Press the Next button to continue, you will see that the components of your new PrestaShop store begin to install:

   

   

Finally, access via FTP to the web folder of your web service and:

• Delete the install folder.
• Change the name of the admin folder to one of your choice.
  • If for example, you rename it to admin123, you must access the administration panel of PrestaShop through the following address: http://tudominio.com/admin123 https://tudominio.com/admin123

💡 If you do not know how to access your web service via FTP, see the section "Access the FTP server" in our manual "FTP account management".

Remember that if you require additional technical support on PrestaShop, you should consult its documentation or its technical support service. For quality reasons, we do not offer additional technical support on external software.

Initial configuration of Moodle

The Moodle CMS manager does not require you to finish the configuration manually. To access the Moodle management panel, you must write the following:

http://yourdomain.com/admin/ https://yourdomain.com/admin/

Here you must enter the username and password that was sent to you at the time of installation by email:

Create new Cloud with pre-installed application

To create a new Cloud with your preinstalled preferred manager, simply access Create a Service (top right corner):

Select Cloud & Apps:

Access the One Click Apps tab:

You can select the application that best suits your needs.

The Cloud will be created with the selected application pre-installed.

Remember that you always have the possibility to access the Cloud and install yourself the application you prefer.

Next, we will select the type and size of the new Cloud:

Next we will finish choosing the options that suit us best for our Server and we will choose its location:

Finally, we see a summary with the data of the hiring. Check the data that appears on the screen, click Accept and create.

💡 Press Download budget to obtain a document with the detailed characteristics of the new Cloud.

Ready! Your new Cloud with the selected application will be operational in a matter of minutes.