[ic] Disabling /admin -> /admin/login.html redirect

Grant emailgrant at gmail.com
Mon Jan 19 19:24:28 UTC 2009


>> >> I'd like to prevent example.com/admin from redirecting to
>> >> example.com/admin/login.html because I don't want my admin login page
>> >> to be so easy to find.  I think the best thing to do would be to
>> >> change the admin folder name, but has anyone implemented a quick fix
>> >> for this?  Maybe in apache?
>> >>
>> >> - Grant
>> >
>> >
>> > Grant,
>> >
>> > One very simple approach is to just place an index.html page in the
>> > pages/admin directory of your catalog.  IC will serve that page rather
>> > than redirecting.
>> >
>> > Carl
>>
>> Thanks Carl, not a bad idea at all, but I'd really like the standard
>> IC catalog 404 page to be served for 'example.com/admin'.
>
> Then put it at index.html. Or use mod_rewrite to route it elsewhere.
> Or anything -- there are many solutions.

I'm thinking this over and I like the idea of moving all
administration functionality (UI, webmail, reporting) to a different
domain than the one the store is on.  Has anyone does that?  Any
problems with it?

- Grant



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