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Administration Guide

Jahia features a back-office panel designed to manage sites and the overall platform. This interface is called the “Administration Center” or “Admin Center”.

If you have administrative privileges, you can access the Jahia Administration Center:

by typing the address of your Jahia server directly in your browser, followed by /administration
from your user home page, via the links located at the top right of the screen
from the toolbars that appear in some of the modes.

In Edit Mode:

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In the Studio:

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By default, after install and once a site has been created, Jahia comes with:

A “root” user: this is the system’s “super user”. It is granted all permissions on the entire platform and can access all of its functionalities for all hosted sites. It is a system user whose rights cannot be altered, even though it is not directly listed in content object permissions. The “root” user is obviously not subjected to system permissions, it has all rights and they cannot be revoked.
A “Site Administrators” group (site-administrators) for the users in charge of the site, who will have “complete control” over it (writing, workflows etc.) as well as a group of privileged users (site-privileged) for those who need access to the default workspace, used mainly in the Edit and Contribute Modes. This makes it possible to secure accesses. Please note that when a user is given a role that requires access to the default workspace (e.g., an editor role), then the user will be automatically added to this group.
Finally, site or server administrators can delegate tasks to other users. For instance, the site administrator can grant other users access to user and group management. Of course, these users will be able to access the features defined by the site administrator, and only these features.

The first section of this guide covers the overall platform management features, mainly the creation of Web Projects (sites), users and roles. Most server management features are only available to the Super Administrator (root) account.

The second section covers the management features available for each Web Project created on the platform. These features are used more frequently than the platform management features and they are available to users with the “site administrator” role.