Say Hello to the World
The “Hello World” tutorial introduces you to the most basic Symphony workflow: creating content and displaying it on the front end.
Step 2. Set up the Front End
Your Symphony project hasn't got a front end yet. If you try to point your browser to the location where you've installed it, you'll see a generic "Page Not Found" error. Let's fix that.
In the main menu, go to Blueprints > Pages. You'll see an empty page index (Figure 1). Click the green Create New button in the top right corner of the screen. You'll be taken to the page editor.
We'll set up a simple home page. Enter Home
in the Title field and home
as the URL Handle. Leave URL Parameters blank, and skip the Parent Page field too. Under Page Type, click "index". This will populate the field automatically for us. Giving our page the index
field type means it will be served as our site's home or index page. Here's what our page setup looks like:
Got it? Ok, click "Create Page." Now, if you try to visit your front end, you'll see that the "Page Not Found" error is gone, but there's an XSLT Processing Error in its place. Don't worry, it just means that Symphony is trying to serve your Home page, but it's got no data and no template to work with.
Let's go create a data source to deliver some content to our page.