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Welcome to the OpenCms tutorial

This short tutorial guides your first steps in OpenCms. It will explain how to edit content and create new pages.

First you need to log in

Before you can edit content with OpenCms, you need to log in. Start with the "Demo" user. The default login information for this user is displayed in the blue box on the left.

Enter the information from the box on the left in the login form below and press "Login":

You have installed OpenCms 21.0.x [cody 08-04 14:09]

Build Date: 2026-08-04 14:09
Git Branch: main
Git Commit ID: 1e30ab1
Git Message: Excluded some Jetty components that conflicted with container-level libraries when running in Jetty. These Jetty components were pulled in as transitive dependencies of Solr, and could cause NoClassDefFoundErrors under some circumstances, e.g. when exceptions were logged during startup.
Build Number: (not set, manual build)
Build System: Cody scripts
Build Type: Manual
Java EE: 10 (jakarta)
Running on OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 25.0.3+9-2-deb13u1-Debian with Linux 6.8.0-136-generic

Once you have successfully logged in, please continue to the next step to learn how to edit content and modify pages.