How to change the Magento Admin URL

Here is a quick guide on how to change admin url path in Magento. To protect your Magento backend against hackers and brute-force attacks, we recommend that you change the default URL to the Magento Admin Panel is must. It is a quick and easy way to add an extra layer of security to your site.

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

Here is process how you can do this :

1) Changing local.xml
– Open app/etc/local.xml
– Find the following:-

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

– Go to this line
<frontName><![CDATA[admin]]></frontName>

and change “admin” as you desired the admin path like

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

and then upload file. After file update clear magento cache.

The process is now complete and you can login your magento with new url path

http://www.example.com/siteadmin/