How to log into the MODX 3 admin panel
In the browser address bar, enter your domain address and add /manager/ to it (example: https://mysite.com/manager/). On the page that opens, enter Username, password and click the Login> button.
Attention! If you see the main page or a page with a 404 error, then the standard login address for the admin panel has been changed.
How to find out a non-standard login address
Go to the hosting in the file manager (or connect via FTP), open the file /core/config/config.inc.php and find the line $modx_manager_url= ‘/admin login address/’;
Admin panel overview
Let’s run through the most common ones.
On the left is the main menu (dark blue), on the right is a tree with resources, elements and files, which can be scrolled using the arrow in the main menu, and a block with buttons and information.
Main menu
Go from top to bottom:
- Logo and the currently installed version of MODX below it.
- Arrow icon – you can hide / expand the resource tree.
- Search icon – searches by the Resources and Elements tabs.
- Content, its sub-items (appear after clicking):
- Create resource – create a new resource (page);
- Go to site – Go to the main page of the site (will open in a new tab);
- Resource groups – manage resource affiliation to resource groups;
- Content types – here you can add or change content types for resources, such as .html, js, etc.
- Media, its sub-items:
- Media Management — display, download and manage media files;
- File Sources.
- Packages: Installer — manage packages (plugins) and repositories.
- Management:
- Users — add, update, and assign rights to users;
- Clear Cache — clear the site cache in all contexts;
- Remove Blocks — all blocks will be removed from the site pages. These locks are the result of other users editing these pages;
- Reload permissions — reload all permissions and clear the cache;
- End all sessions — end all user sessions and force logout of all users;
- Reports — various MODX reports for the administrator.
- Little man icon, here are:
- Profile — you can update your profile: add an avatar, contacts, and the most interesting thing in it you can: change the password of the modx admin panel, or rather for this user.
- Messages — view your messages and send new messages to users.
- Switch language — quickly switch the language of the admin panel.
Logout — log out of the management system.
- Gear icon:
- System settings — edit and create system settings;
- Form settings — manage MODX user settings;
- Control panels — manage panels and widgets;
- Contexts — manage site contexts and their settings;
- Menu — manage actions and structure of the top menu of the management system;
- Access control — manage privileges through groups, roles, and access policies;
- Parameter sets — manage parameter sets and the elements to which these parameter sets are assigned;
- Dictionary management — change language strings in the management system;
- Namespaces — manage namespaces.
- Question mark — the Help and support page will open.
Tree with resources, elements and files
- The Resources tab contains the main content of the site (pages), here you can also create, update and delete them.
- The Elements tab contains all templates, additional fields, chunks, snippets, plugins — accordingly, they can be managed just like resources.
- The Files tab contains all site filesa (engine files, templates, images, etc.).
Changing the address of the MODX Revo administrative panel
how to change the login address for the MODX Revolution administrative control panel.
By default, the login to the admin panel in modex is at domain.ru/manager, but I recommend changing it in order to increase the security of the site. It is very easy to do.
1 Rename the manager directory, for example, to modx-myadmin
2 In the /core/config/config.inc.php file, find and change the lines
$modx_manager_path= '/modx/directory/manager/';
$modx_manager_url= '/manager/';
to
$modx_manager_path= '/modx/directory/modx-myadmin/';
$modx_manager_url= '/modx-admin/';
3. Clear the /core/cache folder
That’s it. Now you can log in to the admin panel at the new address.
Note: Sometimes after all this, you need to go to phpMyAdmin and in the modx_workspaces table change the path field to /modxfolder/directory/modx-myadmin/ — but this is rare and only on specific hostings.
