Sitefinity CMS login

Log in to Sitefinity CMS

  1. To log in to Sitefinity CMS backend, open your website and in the address bar of your browser, enter /Sitefinity after the URL of your website.

    The Log in to manage the site screen opens.

    Login with User group dropdown
  2. In the User group dropdown, select the User group which your account belongs to.

    NOTE: This dropdown is visible only when the site has multiple user groups and the site administrator has enabled the option to manually select the user group.
    For more information, see Site-specific users » Configure backend login behavior.

  3. Enter your email address and password and click Log in.
    You are navigated to the Dashboard of Sitefinity CMS backend.

    NOTE: If your project was created with Sitefinity CMS version 9.2 or lower and you have username instead of email address, you can still use your username to log in.

Permissions

  • If you are not granted permission to access the website, when you try to log in, the system displays a message informing you about this.
    For more information, contact your system administrator.
  • Depending on the permission settings of your website, your administrator may have not granted you permissions for all of the Dashboard sections. For more information, see Dashboard and navigation.
    In this case, sections for which you do not have permissions, are not visible when you log in. In addition, your license may not include permissions for all Dashboard sections.

NOTE: If you or somebody else is using your your credentials or you are logged in to another browser / device, Sitefinity CMS displays a dialog box enabling you to choose whether to log out from the other browser / device and log in.
You can choose whether you want to view this dialog box.
For more information, see Configure the self-logout dialog recurrence.

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