By radiofranky on

is there a way to modify /admin path to something else? because i know someone familiar with drupal tried to hack into my site.. :)

can i modify /admin to something else? like /whatever

tks

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m3avrck’s picture

m3avrck commented

sure, enable path module and create an alias. admin will still obviously work, but then you can have /whatever point to /admin as well.

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radiofranky commented

this won't do.. because /admin is still working..

because it's the actual location..

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sandorczettner commented

you can disable it from .htaccess

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heine commented

That's really not worth the trouble. You depend on the strength of your password, the setup of your server and the robustness of drupal's code.

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m3avrck commented

oops, i didn't read that too clearly, i thought you wanted to be able to access admin/ from another URL, not prevent attacks on it.

as Heine suggested, just changing that name won't be enough. however if you want to do that, you would have to do a search & replace for all instances of admin/ in your the Drupal code, but that's not so easy.