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    Posted: 15 February 2011 at 5:09pm
I had a member brag he found the admin login page.  I checked and sure enough you can go to the /forum/admin.asp and get the login page.  I would like to see admin.asp file part of the common file so we can change the location of the admin login page.
 
Until then I would like to make the admin.ap point to a fake file name so it will get the oops page.  Only a admin that is loged into the forums will see the admin.asp login page once they click the admin link.
 
I also changed the common.asp file and the db files to 
 
common.asp file - line 4
<!-- #include file="_xyz_folder/xyz_filename.asp" -->
 
database_connection.asp or now the new xyz_filename.asp - line 63
<!-- #include file="xyz_settings.asp" -->
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote 123Simples Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 February 2011 at 7:13pm
I'm not sure that this is such an issue. The link is as you say pretty standard, and without the username and password, it is redundant anyway. Until the admin username and password is entered, all they can see is the actual login page for the admin area - nothing else. In fact by altering the script and asp and database connection codes, you may be inadvertingly causing more problems than it is worth.
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The admin login page is not a secret and you can find many a reference to it in these forums as well as documentation going back some 8 years.

The admin login has a more secure login system that only admins can enter and does not support cookies like in the main forum. It also use CAPTCHA to prevent brute force hacking. As long as you do not give the admin account some silly password like 'pa55word', 'qwerty', or some other easy to guess password no one will get in.

There is no point in renaming the common.asp file or the database_connection.asp file as these contain code that will only run server side and so can not be downloaded or the contents viewed.
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