Can admin.php be changed to admin?

Yes, it can be done, but you still need to tell your server to parse “admin” (the file) as PHP. This is what I use in my .htaccess:

<Files "admin">
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</Files>

Yes, it can be done, but you still need to tell your server to parse “admin” (the file) as PHP. This is what I use in my .htaccess:

<Files "admin">
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</Files>

Do I need anything else? That just produces what appears to be a 404 page (generic EE error: The page you requested was not found).

You have renamed admin.php to admin, of course, i.e. without the suffix?

You have renamed admin.php to admin, of course, i.e. without the suffix?

You mean in the URL?

I managed to get /admin to redirect to /admin.php with this:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule !.*\.php$ %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php [QSA,L]

Ideally though I’d like it to remain as /admin in the URL.

You have renamed admin.php to admin, of course, i.e. without the suffix?

You mean in the URL?

I was referring to the actual file on your server.

You could also just do one of two things…

• Rename the system folder to “admin”
• If you prefer to hide the real system folder, or its below root, you can just rename the admin.php file to index.php and place it an empty directory called “admin”. Then adjust the the system path and it should work without any messy .htaccess rewrites etc 😊