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Is there an easy way to find out if an expression engine works on a site?

I tried to search

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It seems very simple for drupal / wordpress / textpattern - are there any quick tricks for ee?

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I found the easiest (and best) way to determine if the ExpressionEngine website is working to check the cookies set by the website.

By default, installing ExpressionEngine from the finished version calls its cookies with the exp_ prefix:

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Naturally, these cookie settings ( cookie domain, cookie path and cookie prefix) can be canceled in the control panel, but many people never worry to change it by default.

If there are, the prefix will be different, but the rest of the cookie name will remain unchanged.

For example, compare the following two cookies:

 exp_last_visit // Default EE Website cms__last_visit // Website for CampaignMonitor

You will notice that both cookies have a common last_visit (and so on for all cookie names).

You can test this newfound knowledge about these popular, high-speed ExpressionEngine:

Although there is no reliable way to determine which CMS can work on a site trying to guess the path of the system folder , asset names, common paths, and templates are time consuming and do not always point to the truth.

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I am using the "BuiltWith Technology Profiler" which I installed in Google Chrome. Not proof of a fool, but I use it all the time to see what was used to create the sites (not just ExpressionEngine).

http://bit.ly/QelN5i

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You can also see the source of the search tool on the site (provided that it uses the EE search module) ... it will contain some hidden fields specific to EE:

EE Search hidden fields

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All URLs are the default values ​​after index.php, i.e. http://www.testing.com/index.php/testing Many times they correspond, i.e. http://www.testing.com/testing Thus, a good way would be to try to access any URL by adding the base directory index.php. At least this is the only public path on our sites. We rename our admin folder in the same way as many others, to prevent this from being easily understood by the public.

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