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Admin security

Post by gafadi » Fri Nov 16, 2007 3:35 am

hi guys

how can i protect from people just type http://www.mysitename.com/administrator and show the admin login .. then they guess type my admin names and pass .. is there something that can change it
http://www.templateplazza.com/administrator

i want to make it something like that .. so that they dont know i am using joomla coz if they know i am using joomla they would try some cracking ways so how can do it .. i am concerned about my joomla site security
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Re: Admin security

Post by RussW » Fri Nov 16, 2007 7:21 am

Please review the Help Site Security FAQ's there is a method described here to .htaccess protect your administration directories.
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Re: Admin security

Post by gafadi » Sat Nov 17, 2007 12:47 am

please help i did look but didnt find can u please post the link
thanks
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Re: Admin security

Post by whitebirch » Thu Nov 22, 2007 3:39 am

just add a htaccess in your administrator folder.  You can do this via your CPanel or http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/htacce ... ator.shtml
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Re: Admin security

Post by goldenheart » Fri Nov 30, 2007 6:59 pm

Try to check out if you find something on the following link!
http://help.joomla.org/component/option ... temid,268/
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Re: Admin security

Post by gafadi » Fri Nov 30, 2007 8:10 pm

i already did it thru my hosting .. password protected diretories
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