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Posted by : Anonymous
Friday, December 27, 2013
Here step for change admin directory for securing access from hacker and avoid brute force admin finder.
1. Go to you hosting/Cpanel
2. Open your MyBB directory
3. Open and Edit /inc/config.php
4. Search the text $config['admin_dir'] = 'admin';
5. change 'admin' with your own directory. excamples : 'versado' and save
6. rename the admin folder with your own name. in here i'll rename 'versado' cause in config.php, admin_dir is 'versado'
7. access your board url and type own admin directory examples : http://domain.com/versado/
Notice!
- if you want install some plugins, please careful, cause some plugin are using default admin_dir ( admin ) so you must rename, and change default admin_dir
