From where we can change the URL of admin in Magento?

Question

Last week we had a very strange problem with the admin login of a Magento client of ours. When we tried to login we would get a session id in the url and everything seemed to work, but we were redirected to the same login box.

Answer 1

First, open the local.xml configuration file in your favorite text editor, or use the Text Editor in the cPanel File Manager. The file is usually located in the app/etc/ directory under your Magento installation. Locate the following code segment:

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

Now, replace admin with your new admin path. This should be something personal which is hard to guess, use only letters or numbers - no special characters, then save the file.

The final step is to refresh your cache. Use an FTP client to delete the content of the var/cache/ directory, or use the following SSH command.

(First, navigate to you Magento root directory)

Answer 2

There are two ways to change the admin URL in magento. I will explain you both the way.

- Change the url from Admin Panel

• In admin section go to System->Configuration
• Then go to Advanced->Admin
• Expand Admin Base Url
  (a) Set Use Custom Admin URL to “Yes.” Then, enter the Custom Admin URL in the following format:
  http://yourdomain.com/magento/
  Note: ** The admin URL must be in the same Magento installation, and have the same document root as the storefront.
  **(b) Set Custom Admin Path to “Yes.” Then, enter the name of the Custom Admin Path in the following format:
  backend
  

Change from the Server Command Line

• Open the app/etc/local.xml file in a text editor. Then locate the following code :
  
  
  
  
  <![CDATA[admin]]>
  
  
  
  
  Now change the path

  <![CDATA[admin]]>
  to

  <![CDATA[backend]]>

• From command line go to your magento root directory and execute the following command :

  rm -rf var/cache/*

That's all. Hope it will help you