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Change X-Cart Admin Folder

Change X-Cart Admin Folder
Category: X-Cart Tutorials
Posted: Feb 2, 2010
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Synopsis: X-Cart tutorial describing how to change path to the x-cart admin folder for increased xcart security.

The x-cart admin folder is commonly known to be /admin making it a target for malicious users. Changing the folder name/location provides an added level of security. The x-cart admin folder can be changed as follows:

  1. Log into your x-cart host using an FTP program. Access the path to your x-cart files and rename the folder "admin" to the name of your choice. We will call this "newadmin."
  2. Now open your top.inc.php file

    Find:

    define ('DIR_ADMIN', '/admin');


    Change to (substitute "newadmin" for the name of your renamed folder):

    define ('DIR_ADMIN', '/newadmin');

You will now access your x-cart admin section using the url:
http://www.example.com/newadmin/

Also be sure to view our X-Cart Security Tutorial.


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