Altering the admin control panel URL?

dusty · 5th June 2008, 01:16 PM

I've run into a little problem. I'm intending to use an open source CMS system, the admin control panel of which is also http://www.mydomainname.com/admin/ when clean URL's are enabled.

Is it possible to alter or disable the default Unitedhosting control panel URL? (ie: http://www.mydomainname.com/unitedadmin/ instead) Or is this asking the impossible?

UH-Simon · 5th June 2008, 01:30 PM

We can change the control panel url but this reverts back to /admin whenever a site edit is made or we run control panel upgrades. We therefore strongly recommend that wherever possible you change the url for your cms system.

dusty · 5th June 2008, 01:31 PM

Ok, I'll look into it. Worst comes to the worst I'll just have to run without clean URL's for now. Thanks.

yatesy87 · 5th June 2008, 01:41 PM

Dont know if this is much help but i use oscommerce stores and the same thing happens in terms of /admin/

basically all i do instead is when i want to enter the uh controlg panel i type.

www.domain.com/admin/

and if i want to go to my oscommerce admin

www.domain.com/admin/index.php

dusty · 5th June 2008, 01:44 PM

Thanks, Yes I tried that - I'm using Drupal, but the paths are generated differently, there isn't physically an admin folder in the first place. It's ok - I've already sussed it;

For anyone else who might be using Drupal and stumbles across this thread, there is an optional core module called 'path' - enable this and it allows you to rename any URL. My admin panel is now /control instead. Sorry for wasting peoples time, I'm on a steep learning curve and a tight deadline!

TygerTyger · 5th June 2008, 01:48 PM

Well it's a valid suggestion for Ensim, /admin is an extremely common URL for scripts to use and the Control Panel URL is probably the most difficult URL to change, so why they would reserve it for themselves I don't know.

terraGirl · 5th June 2008, 02:37 PM

In osCommerce, the admin folder can just be renamed to anything. Then when you install, just give the new folder name and it will be written to the configure.php files. Alternatively, amend the configure.php files manually to reflect the new name. Basic, but effective.

With WHMCS though we had to place the whole thing into a folder as /admin/ cannot be renamed