Moving Admin Area

[Guest bobdydd]

Hi

 

Just getting going and trying to make the site a little more secure.

Are there any instructions as to how to change the Admin folder to a new name (say admin123) in version 5.

 

The only thing I found on the subject was this.

http://forums.cubecart.com/topic/44047-move-admin-area/?hl=%2Bmove+%2Badmin

 

But they never discussed it further. I would be grateful if someone could help

 

Best Regards

 

[bsmither]

In the file /includes/global.inc.php, you can change the admin foldername (admin) and the admin filename (admin.php) to whatever you want.

 

And it will mostly work.

 

There are a couple of places in the CubeCart code that are hard-coded to use admin and admin.php.

/admin/index.php, line 2 and 3

/js/admin.js, six places, and I'm not sure how one gets around that

/js/plugins/jquery.filetree.js, line 50, same as above

 

Here are two examples of what should be used:

$link = $GLOBALS['storeURL'].'/'.$GLOBALS['config']->get('config','adminFile').'?_g=products';

$link = sprintf('%s?_g=products',$glob['adminFile']);

(It seems like there is a lack of consistency in the programming, but, oh well.)

$glob is not available after the Config class is instantiated. This only happens on the store side. Both $GLOBALS['config'] and $glob are available on the admin side.

 

And there is no guarantee that mod programmers follow this.

[Guest bobdydd]

Hi BSmither

Thanks for coming back so soon.

 

There is a very good instruction on how to do this for CubeCart Version 4

http://www.cubecartforums.org/docs/index.php?id=187

 

But it is not the same as version 5. Maybe someone who is a little more familiar with CC than I am could transpose it for version 5.

 

Anyway I will give your recommendation a go later today.

 

Once again thanks