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Trying to change Admin for security

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28 Jan 2009, 12:51 AM
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Trying to change Admin for security

Just installed Zen cart and I'm trying to implement suggested security recommendations including renaming the admin folder, but I can't get it to work for me. I'm able to see the new admin page, but the links still point to /admin directory.

Here's what I've done:

I changed admin rerferences in /includes/admin/configure.php to same name as folder. (3 references is all I found).
I renamed /includes/admin folder to /includes/newname.
I also cleared my browser cache.

I logged into domain.com/catalog/newname successfully but can't get to other settings which still point to admin folder's old admin name.

28 Jan 2009, 1:05 AM
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Re: Trying to change Admin for security

Of course immediately after posting this, I see the additional step here at
define('DIR_FS_ADMIN', '/home/mystore.com/www/public/mysecretadminarea/');

28 Jan 2009, 2:58 PM
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Re: Trying to change Admin for security

Unfortunately, that still doesn't make this work for me.

28 Jan 2009, 3:09 PM
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Re: Trying to change Admin for security

If you could post, from the server, without your username and password, the file:
/admin/includes/configure.php

we could probably help work you through this ...

NOTE: make sure the file on the server actually holds your changes ...

NOTE: you can change your real admin directory name to FRED if you want so we won't know it ... :cool:

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28 Jan 2009, 5:47 PM
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Re: Trying to change Admin for security

Thanks. I'm re-installing the whole thing again for other reasons so it will be a while before I get that back to you.