Ok, but what about changing the /admin route to something else? Like I said, it's not much but it might keep the script kiddies away.
Thanx! Richard On Dec 19, 2007 11:08 PM, Sean Cribbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard, > > I would use your webserver's capabilities to restrict requests to that > path to be over SSL. I believe this is fairly easy to do with Apache, > and I have a vague idea of how to do it with nginx. Unfortunately, I > don't do it that often and so I can't provide you any snippets. > > Sean > > Richard Hurt wrote: > > Now that I have my Radiant powered site up and running (thank you very > > much!) I am getting a bit anxious about the /admin page being exposed to > the > > world. Not that I'm a big target or anything, but I really don't want > to > > have to depend on my password skills to make sure my site stays the way > it > > is. What I would like to do is two fold. > > > > First I want to for the /admin page to be SSL only. What's the best way > to > > go about this? I am going to have a self signed certificate for now as > it's > > only me doing the editing, but I would like to keep the editing sessions > > private. At the very least I have to secure the initial logon page, > even if > > I don't secure the entire /admin/... route. > > > > Second I would like to change the admin route from /admin to something > else, > > maybe /edit, or /blahblah. What's the best|easiest way to do this? I > know > > security by obscurity is no security at all, but I would like to at > least > > give the script kiddies something to chew on. :) > > > > Thanx! > > Richard > > > > P.S. I apologize if this is in the Wiki - I searched but couldn't find > > anything on it. I'll update the Wiki if I get it working. How's that? > :) > > _______________________________________________ > > Radiant mailing list > > Post: [email protected] > > Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ > > Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Radiant mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ > Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant > _______________________________________________ Radiant mailing list Post: [email protected] Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
