Joomla is an open-source free content management system for web development and web designing purposes. On installing Joomla on the computer, for convenience, some default features are included. But you can customize them anytime. One such feature is the Joomla administrator path.
In Joomla the default admin path is:
localhost/site_name/administrator
Typing administrator in the address bar of a browser is a tedious process. And if the website domain name is too long, then it becomes even more time-consuming. We all know Joomla is an easy to customize CMS. But is it possible to change the Joomla administrator path? How can a user customize this path and change it to:
localhost/site_name/admin
There are obvious reasons why a Joomla user wants to change the Joomla administrator path. The following list highlights this need:
You can change the Joomla administrator path by the following way:
Look for the constants in /includes/defines.php and /administrator/includes/defines.php