MyBB Tutorial - How to move admin directory/Make your site much more secure!

Hey,

This is a short tutorial, but it is crucial every forum uses it it will increase your security a lot.

So, what does this do?

Well, when you first start a forum the admin panel link will be something like;

www.yoursitename.com/admin.php

Which is easy to find, and easier for hackers to bruteforce etc, so you want to make it hard to find.

How can you do this?

Well, for this I used;

Filezilla


So, lets get started.

Go into filezilla, go to public_html and then there will be a folder called " admin " or something similar.

Right click it and now you are going to rename it. You should choose something which is very hard to guess and I suggest a encrypted word and make sure it is long, with; numbers, letters & symbols.

Now, you have renamed it, you are going to have to go to the folder called " inc " in public_html, and then there will be a file called " config.php " you want to open it by right clicking it and clicking view/edit.

Now look for the word " admin " or whatever your admin directory was called by default and you need to change the word " admin " to whatever you renamed to the admin folder too.

Now, click save and you are done.
Hope this helped, any problems? Feel free to ask me for help.

Nice tutorial! One thing I usually do is add a fullstop at the beginning of the folder, for example ".MYADMIN", this hides the folder in directory listings and in some cases FTP.

cronhound said:

Nice tutorial! One thing I usually do is add a fullstop at the beginning of the folder, for example ".MYADMIN", this hides the folder in directory listings and in some cases FTP.

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Thanks, but you should not just put a " . " and feel safe, use something encrypted.