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Updated: 01/10/2020
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The Admin Base URL is the URL you use to access your Magento Admin Dashboard. Depending on how Magento is installed that may vary, however, usually, it is something like yourdomain.com/admin123/. The main purpose of using a Custom URL is due to security reasons - as a preventive measurement for brute-force attacks, hacker attacks, and other threats. We will introduce two ways of changing the Admin Base URL in Magento.
Before you step further to making any sort of changes we will strongly advise you to ensure you have a backup copy of your website’s files and database. Also, please note that is recommended to perform such changes in a development environment rather than live websites.
The very first step we will need you to take is to log in to your Magento Admin Dashboard and navigate through the left menu bar to Stores > Configuration.
Once you access the “Configuration” page, please expand the last “Advanced” section and click on “Admin”.
Once you are at the “Admin” settings page, please expand the “Admin Base URL” section.
Please make sure to leave the first “Use Custom Admin URL” set to “No”.
You will have to untick the “Use System Value” checkbox next to “Use Custom Admin Path” and select “Yes” from the dropdown menu. Then you will be presented with an additional “Custom Admin Path” field where you will need to enter the desired path for your Admin URL.
In our example, we have entered “customurl” which will change the default http://domain.com/admin123/ to http:domain.com/customurl/. We believe you can come up with something more creative and secrete than that.
Once you enter the desired path, please click on the “Save Config” button. Afterward, you will be automatically logged out and redirected to your new Admin Login page.
And that is it! You have your new Magento Admin URL successfully configured.
You can change your Magento Admin Login URL by editing the “env.php” file. The file can be edited either through the “File Manager” available in your cPanel account, via FTP, or via SSH. No matter which method will be used, you will achieve the same result, therefore, you are welcome to choose the most convenient method for you.
From your Magento root directory, please navigate to the app/etc folder and you will locate the “env.php” file. Please, open the file with a text editor and you will see the following code.
Please, change the text in the single brackets positioned after “'frontName' =>” to your desired one. For example:
After you perform the change, please do not forget to save the file. Once you successfully save the file, please make sure to flush Magento’s cache by going to System > Cache Management > Flush Magento Cache.
That is it - pretty straight forward, right? We hope you have found our tutorial easy to follow and you have managed to successfully configure your Custom Admin Login URL. As usual, we would like to thank you for trusting our guidance and encourage you to contact our Support Team in case any further instructions are needed.
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