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Magento Security: How to Change the Default Admin URL

Posted on Oct 12 in Magento | (1) Comment

In your production environment you want your Magento application to be as secure as possible (especially if you are saving sensitive customer information such as credit card numbers). To make it harder for people to break into your administration panel you should change the default admin path from www.yoursite.com/admin to something less conspicuous – preferably [...]

In your production environment you want your Magento application to be as secure as possible (especially if you are saving sensitive customer information such as credit card numbers). To make it harder for people to break into your administration panel you should change the default admin path from www.yoursite.com/admin to something less conspicuous – preferably a random string that would not be susceptible to dictionary attacks.

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