How to Access EPiServer CMS Edit Mode with the URL

Often times I find myself accessing CMS Edit mode (or Admin mode) directly via the URL.  It seems pretty basic when you’ve worked with the system for a while but maybe we take that knowledge for granted based on our experience.  I’ve had a few partners ask about his recently so I thought I’d write a short and simple blog post about it.

CMS 6 Edit Mode (based on CMS 6 RC1):

http://<computername>:<port>/<yoursitename>/<ui>/cms/edit

Where…

o <computername> is your computer name

o <port> is the port you configured for the site during install. Default is 17000 for the first site install

o <yoursitename> is the name you configured for the site during install. Default for the site is “MyEPiServerSite”

o <ui> is the relative path you configured for the site during install

Example:

http://mywindowsysevenmachine:17000/myepiserversite/ui/cms/edit

CMS 5 Edit Mode (based on CMS 5 R2 SP2):

http://<computername>:<port>/<yoursitename>/<ui>/edit

o Essentially this is the same as above for CMS 6 however by default CMS 6 uses ../ui/cms/edit and CMS 5 uses ../ui/edit.

Notes:

o If you aren’t certain what path you set for your site on install:

o Open the episerver.config file for the site typically located at C:\EPiServer\Site\<yoursitename> (CMS 6 stores this in episerver.config. CMS 5 stores this in web.config)

o Search for “uiUrl”. You will find something similar to the following: ~/MyEPiServerSite/UI/. This is the relative UI path. Adding “edit” to the tail of this path will give you the relative Edit mode path.

o If you aren’t certain what your sites URL or port for your site is:

o Open the episerver.config file for the site typically located at C:\EPiServer\Site\<yoursitename> (CMS 6 stores this in episerver.config. CMS 5 stores this in web.config)

o Search for “siteUrl”. Here you should find the site URL as well as the port.

o How do you access Admin mode via URL?

o Typically the same as the above steps for Edit mode but swap in “admin” in place of “edit” in the URL.

Example:

http://mywindowsysevenmachine:17000/myepiserversite/ui/cms/admin