Magento: How to change Admin URL Path?

Here is a quick guide on how to change admin url path in Magento. This need to be done for security reason to be safe from hacking/cracking issue. Basically, this is done not to let any general user to access the admin page.

Generally, we do have ‘admin‘ as the administrator path for Magento. So, the admin URL will be http://www.example.com/admin/

This article will show you, how you can change the admin url. Let’s say from ‘admin‘ to ‘backend‘. So, the new admin URL will be http://www.example.com/backend/
Here is how we do it:-

- Open app/etc/local.xml
- Find the following:-

<admin>  <routers>   <adminhtml>    <args>      <frontName><![CDATA[admin]]></frontName>    </args>   </adminhtml>  </routers> </admin>

- Change

<frontName><![CDATA[admin]]></frontName>

to your desired name. Like below:-

<frontName><![CDATA[backend]]></frontName>

- Save the file
- Refresh the Cache from Magento Admin (System -> Cache Management)

Now, you should be able to access admin panel from http://www.example.com/backend/ instead of http://www.example.com/admin/