Start working with concrete5
Once you have a running concrete5 site, you can log in to your site by clicking on the Sign In to Edit this Site link at the bottom of the page. If you already installed a different theme, you might not find that link, as some people remove it to keep their layout as clean as possible. If that's the case, you can use the following URL, or if that's not working either, the second URL:
http://www.your-site.com/login/http://www.your-site.com/index.php/login/
Tip
Keeping URLs nice and clean
The two preceding links point to the same page but one has an ugly index.php in it. That's because all requests are redirected through that file. Luckily, it's not difficult to get rid of that. concrete5 can make use of mod_rewrite that makes it possible to remove parts of the URL.
In the dashboard, enter pretty in the little search bar at the top of the page and select the Pretty URLs item. On the screen which appears, check the only checkbox and save the changes. This is shown in the following screenshot:
After you're logged in, you'll see an almost identical view of your site, there's just one major change. Now there's a toolbar at the top, allowing you to access the dashboard as well as the editing options related to the current page:
