Sharepoint 2010: Unable to see Site Collections Administration

Question

I'm new to sharepoint and I'm having trouble getting the "Site Collections Administration" section to appear under "Site Actions -> Site Settings".

I read on another site, that I need to logon as a site collections administator. Since I wasn't yet an admin, I logged into Sharepoint Central Administration -> Site Collections -> Change site collection administrators. From within here, I set myself as a secondary site collection admin. So far so good.

Next, I logged back into sharepoint with my user account, which I'm assuming, now had permissions to site collection, however when I went back into Site Settings, I still can't see "Site Collections Administrator"

My current permissions are listed as "Full Control, Design".

Any idea why I can't see this section?

Thanks

Answer 1

The Site collection administrators link will not appear under Users and Permissions unless you are at the Site Collection Top Level Site.

You can verify where you are by going to Site Actions > Site Settings. If under the Site Collection Administration section, it says Go to top level site settings you are not at the Top Level Site. Click this link to get the top level site.