Generated on: 16/09/2026
How to run Giorgio Palermo: where to work, what you change from the admin area and what you change in the files. Keep this page at hand.
The administration of Giorgio Palermo lives at /admin. Sign in with the account created during installation (admin) and the password you chose.
/admin is the main panel./restricted/… are the individual management sections (content, users, languages, services).First thing to do: if you have not already, delete the /install folder from the server. The installer is disabled as long as the configuration file exists, but removing it is good practice.
JoeCMS handles content in two different ways, and this is the most important distinction to grasp.
contents/<name>/index.php with the text in themes/site/contents/<name>/. The right choice for fixed, special pages: the home page, login, the legal pages, this guide.Rule of thumb: if the content changes often or an editor must be able to change it, use a database page. If it is structural, keep it as a file.
The three parts you see first are HTML files you can open and edit:
applets/header/template.html — logo and top menu. Below 820 px the menu collapses into a button that opens a side panel.applets/footer/template.html — legal links and copyright.applets/homepage/template.html — the landing page.In links write /en/path instead of /path: the token is translated into the right address for the language the visitor is reading. For the language selector use EN
The logo used by the header lives in uploads/loghi/.
Site icon. The favicon and the app icon were generated at install time from a single image: favicon.ico, favicon.png and apple-touch-icon.png in the root, the Android/PWA icons in /media-resource/, plus manifest.json and browserconfig.xml. The original is in uploads/loghi/icona-sito.png: to change the icon replace those files with the same image at the same sizes.
The public site style all lives in themes/site/css/root.css. At the top of the file are the colour, typography and spacing variables: change those and the whole site changes, without chasing individual rules.
The installation package ships only the compiled CSS. The Sass sources (themes/site/css/root/*.scss) live in the development repository: if you work from there, edit the .scss files and recompile with sass themes/site/css/root.scss themes/site/css/root.css. Otherwise edit root.css directly.
The logo lives in uploads/loghi/: replace the files keeping the same names and site, emails and admin area all change at once.
While browsing the site as an administrator, JoeCMS can show an overlay editing toolbar and alignment guides on blocks. Both are off by default: on public pages they tend to get in the way more than they help.
If you need them, turn them on at /restricted/services/admin.tools: enable for the toolbar, outline_guide for the alignment guides (1 = on, 0 = off).
Active languages are managed at /restricted/international. The default language uses addresses without a prefix; the others add the code, for example /en/….
/restricted/wordcode. Anything missing in a language falls back to the default one.contents/i18n.php. That way /privacy becomes /en/privacy-policy with a single controller.EN
Users are managed at /restricted/users, groups and permissions at /restricted/groups.
On this site registration is disabled: the sign-up form is not shown and the personal area is unreachable. To reopen it, set JC_REGISTRATION_ENABLE to true in themes/site/conf/config.remote.php.
System emails (confirmation, password recovery) are sent through the SMTP server configured during installation. If they do not arrive, check the SMTP settings first and the spam folder second.
External integrations (analytics, maps, advertising pixels, fonts) are turned on and off at /restricted/services. Each service has an enable switch plus the fields it needs, typically a key.
When the cookie banner is active, analytics and marketing scripts are not loaded until the visitor consents: blocking happens server-side, not by merely hiding them. Remember that the categories declared in the cookie policy must match the ones enabled in the banner.
Cache. Public pages are stored in cache/, per language. If a change does not show up, empty that folder (its contents, not the folder itself).
Backups. A complete backup is two things: the database and the folders uploads/, contents/, themes/, applets/. The file themes/site/conf/config.remote.php holds the credentials: keep it safe and out of version control.
Security. Remove /install, keep write permissions only where needed (uploads/, cache/, themes/site/conf/), and change the admin password if you have shared it.
cache/ and reload bypassing the browser cache..htaccess is there and mod_rewrite is enabled.