: Changing www.sitename.com/administrator How to change www.sitename.com/administrator to www.sitename.com/administratorSr5£d?€-^@L (or anything similar) in order to make it very very hard for any spiteful

@Rambettina238

Use Akeeba's Admin Tools (www.akeebabackup.com).

It's free (there is also a paid version, with more resources).

Be sure to use the .htaccess generator from Admin Tools, as it will further protect your website.

Install, go to components => admin tools, then go to "Web Application Firewall, and to "configure WAF". There you should set the "Administrator Secret URL Parameter" to anything you like, preferrably between 10 and 16 characters.

The final URL will be site.com/administrator?your-parameter-here (the ? is mandatory after /administrator).

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@Gail5422790

Lodder answered the question at stackoverflow.com/questions/16052940/how-to-rename-the-joomla-administrator-folder.
They recommended the Admin Exile Extension - extensions.joomla.org/extensions/access-a-security/site-security/login-protection/15711

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