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

[Villainnn]

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.

 

[Clickbait]

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.

 

[Villainnn]

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.

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