Is the site made of Joomla/ Drupal or something else ?

[kinley]

Hi,

How can we check whether a sites is created using Joomla/ Drupal or any other content management platform?

[BillyS]

Why do you ask? Are you trying to hack their site?

[kinley]

BillyS, If I would have been a hacker, I would have already known this.

And, why do you treat posts with suspicion, When you are on the learning curve, you have to be inquisitive :)

[fargo1999]

Just check some filenames and Bing them to find the source website.

[kinley]

Thanks fargo :)

[ergophobe]

Fargo, what filenames would you Bing? (an insurgent in the midst I see ;-)

Kinley, if you look at the HTML source, a drupal site will have a stylesheet in a location like
/sites/[sitename]/themes/[themename]

[sitename] will be either default, or some name that is based on the domain.
[themename] could be anything.

[BradleyT]

For Drupal look for /user and there will be an easy to identify log in box. Or you can try a URL like example.com/node/33 and if it loads or redirects you to a specific content page it's probably a Drupal site. You can also look for style sheets named after some of the more common modules.

[kinley]

Thanks ergophobe and bradley for the inputs :)

And, what would you look for if it's a Joomla site?

[tangor]

Quicker way is to install both, check the file structures, and "bingo" you have the answer.

[ergophobe]

Have a look at
[joomla.org...]

Go to some of the sites they list there and look for the common footprint.

At it's most obvious, some sites have

<meta name="Generator" content="Joomla! - Copyright (C) 2005 - 2006 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved." />

Or the equivalent. More recent ones include the version number (1.5 on I think).

Also, you'll typically, but not always, find stylesheets in

/templates/[template name]/css/template_css.css

but of course that may be the case on any site that uses some sort of template, but it's a good indicator.

Also, a little "Powered by Joomla!" notice at the bottom is a good sign.
Interestingly, the top-ranked Joomla showcase site is running... Wordpress!

check the file structures

This is sort of like fargo's suggestion. I don't think you do have the answer though. The main joomla site (joomla.org) for example, does not have its stylesheet in /templates/[templatename]/css. They're serving that off a CDN, so that address is

http://cdn.joomla.org/css/template.css

In this case the domain gives it away, but this does not match the default template install.

Outside of the template/theme, no other part of the file structure is exposed to the public, so knowing the file structure doesn't tell you much.

[BillyS]

Most people don't change the administrative log in page. The Joomla format is www.fooname.com/administrator/

[kinley]

BillyS, Yes, thats true. It is one of the easy way of determining a site is made from Joomla.

BUT, still some change the control panel admin name and other block all IPs to the admin page apart from their own.

[BillyS]

Here is another one...

Look at the structure of the site's robots.txt file.

There isn't a perfect answer, but there are several ways to investigate the possibility.

[philoutsource09]

Precisely, as I know is that you can determine if the site is made of Joomla is through its administrator log in page by adding /administrator to the domain name of the site.