Changing the URL and redirecting

[Lunaversity]

Hello, I am looking to improve the security of the Website we currently are using. I would like to make it so if people type in the link to the Administration Center it would redirect them to another page, but I would like to change the link to the Administration Center as well. Would anyone know how to do this on SMF? I also have Simple Portal installed with it as well.

Thanks.

[soja]

Here is some info I found on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8985 ... s-but-mine


Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !=123.45.67.89
RewriteRule index.php$ /construction.php [R=301,L]


put this in a .htaccess file inside your admin directory.

Replace the IP with yours, and replace the index.php with the file in your admin directory, and construction.php with your site index.

Let me know how it works.

[Lunaversity]

Here is some info I found on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8985 ... s-but-mine


Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !=123.45.67.89
RewriteRule index.php$ /construction.php [R=301,L]


put this in a .htaccess file inside your admin directory.

Replace the IP with yours, and replace the index.php with the file in your admin directory, and construction.php with your site index.

Let me know how it works.

This might be a retarded question but I honestly have no idea where the admin directory is. I've looked up .htaccess would I put that in the root file */public/.htaccess?

[soja]

No, what is your admin panel link?

For example at my community it is https://gflclan.com/admin/index.php

So I would place the .htaccess in my public/admin/ folder.

[Lunaversity]

No, what is your admin panel link?

For example at my community it is https://gflclan.com/admin/index.php

So I would place the .htaccess in my public/admin/ folder.

Mine is index.php?action=admin
And there is no admin directory. I am using SMF

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Do you have a admin.php?

[Lunaversity]

The clostest thing I have to that is Admin.template.php and that's located in the themes/default.

( Sorry for the late reply been on vacation )