How to get to the admin page in Drupal

I've downloaded Drupal 6 and installed it on my local server, and ported a basic web site as a custom theme. I've set this as the default theme and everything works okay; the page appears nice with all the images and layout.

The problem is that now, no matter what I type as the URL I always get to my page. So how can I go to the admin page? /q=user does not work. I can change the theme from the database but that is not what I want. I just want to keep this theme and be able to access all the Drupal functionality.

For the custom page i've crea开发者_Go百科ted the page.tpl.php and .info file. Along with the CSS file I've put them all in a new folder in the themes directory.

@abhaga's answer is spot on - you've turned the entire site's theme into a single page's HTML, so they're all going to be the same.

If you'd like to avoid glitching the admin side of things with a bad template file, you can set one of the core themes as your "administration theme" (in Site Configuration) - that way, the admin backend will always use that theme regardless of the other templates.

Ah! Basically page.tpl.php specifies the over all structure of site. Look at the original page.tpl.php file - it will be printing a variable called $content somewhere. That is the variable holding all the content of your specific page. You will need to print it at appropriate place in your pge.tpl.php

You should check out the right way of creating a theme here: http://drupal.org/theme-guide/6