The Magento Expert https://www.the-mage-expert.com Your Magento Commerce Expert Tue, 24 Jan 2023 09:37:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.6 Changing the admin route for security reasons https://www.the-mage-expert.com/624/magento-changing-admin-route-for-security-reasons/ https://www.the-mage-expert.com/624/magento-changing-admin-route-for-security-reasons/#comments Mon, 07 Apr 2014 08:26:45 +0000 http://www.the-mage-expert.com/?p=624 One step towards making your shop more secure is to change the default admin route from http://www.your-shop.com/admin to something more secure and less guessable. The route must be changed in app/etc/local.xml.

<admin>
    <routers>
        <adminhtml>
            <args>
                <frontName>your-new-backend-route</frontName>
            </args>
        </adminhtml>
    </routers>
</admin>

After adding that to your app/etc/local.xml file, clear the cache and check if your admin is now available at http://www.your-shop.com/your-new-backend-route instead of http://www.your-shop.com/admin.

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