Modify admin login path

[oleteacher]

Due to so many hits on the internet facing install of HTMLY admin login, the school IT department has shut off our installs of HTMLY.

I am told that if I cannot come up with a solution to change the path to login and admin, we will have to find another platform. This is of course not something any of us want, we love HTMLY :)

My question: how can I modify the /login and /admin paths? Need to be able to use random words in place of login / admin.

Looked at .htaccess and see no reference to login / admin.

Please give me some ideas so we can start using HTMLY again.

[danpros]

Hello,

To modify the /login and /admin path, it needs quite a lot of changes.

htmly using bcrypt as the hash algo (default as of PHP 5.5.0). With good password, at least 8 char and contains upper, lower, number and symbols it need 286 years to crack it (info).

To prevent brute force, you can enable the Google reCaptcha (link).

Good luck! 😃

[oleteacher]

Thank you for the input Dan.

The issue is not the security of the script. Issue is: one school campus that has 10+ teachers with internet facing blog to keep parents updated. This is just one campus. Multiply that by 20+ campuses. 200+ installs of HTMLY with all of them using admin/ and/or login/. The amount of rouge traffic is staggering, hits that just keep coming hour after hour 24/7.

The IT department will just not allow such.

Anyway, thank for reply.

[vdbhb59]

Thank you for the input Dan.

The issue is not the security of the script. Issue is: one school campus that has 10+ teachers with internet facing blog to keep parents updated. This is just one campus. Multiply that by 20+ campuses. 200+ installs of HTMLY with all of them using admin/ and/or login/. The amount of rouge traffic is staggering, hits that just keep coming hour after hour 24/7.

The IT department will just not allow such.

Anyway, thank for reply.

Teachers can keep logged in or use another IP for login and then switch to campus wifi. However, that is a temporary solution, up until your issue is resolved. Another way is to add each one as a user to one installation itself. Grant them admin rights and that should minimize hopefully.