How to change Magento Admin URL?

For security reason, you should have to change a admin url (www.yourstore/admin). For changing an admin URL follow below steps as per mentioned.

For security reason, you should have to change a admin url (www.yourstore/admin). For changing an admin URL follow below steps as per mentioned.

• Open CPanal and click on file manager
• Click on you root folder and select APP directory
• Open App directory and select etc directory.
• And now open local.xml file. (Finally, path will show: ROOT/app/etc/local.xml)

<admin>

    <routers>

        <adminhtml>

            <args>

                <frontName><![CDATA[admin]]></frontName>

             <!–   <frontName><![CDATA[<<TYPE HERE NEW ADMIN URL>>]]></frontName> –>

            </args>

        </adminhtml>

    </routers>

</admin>

And change the “admin” value.

Once all changes are done, don’t forget to save a file.

Clear Magento cache and test it. Now, new URL will is working properly and make sure that an old one returns 404 code.