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Magnolia is distributed as two web-applications: author and public. Editors work on the author instance, typically in a secure location inaccessible from the Internet. Editors publish content from the author instance to public instances. Public instances serve the content to visitors. In a typical production setup you have at least two public instances, often more.

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• In AdminCentral, go Tools > About Magnolia.
• Check the /server/admin property in configuration. It is true for author and false for public instance.
• In Java code, use the isAdmin() method provided by the 

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• In a Freemarker template, use the cmsfn.isAuthorInstance() or cmsfn.isPublicInstance() templating functions.

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