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  • shkod 10 posts 62 karma points
    Jan 13, 2010 @ 12:26
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    Problem with renaming "/umbraco" folder

    I want to secure my umbraco installation. To do this, I disable debugging output by using <add key="umbracoDebugMode" value="false" />.

    Also I block complete stack trace by using the url rewriting.

    After this steps all works fine, both frontend and admin area. 

    But when I rename "/umbraco" folder, backend stops working (frontend works as usually). I add new path of renamed folder to umbracoReservedPaths. When I logged, all labels was on Danish. Also Content and Media nodes was empty. Wnen I renamed folder to "/umbraco" again all nodes in Content and Media was appeared.

    How can I rename  "/umbraco" folder and don't lose my content? // I have Umbraco 4.0.2.1 version, IIS 7.5 and Server Web 2008 R2, asp.net 2.0

  • Bjørn Fridal 274 posts 784 karma points
    Jan 13, 2010 @ 12:43
    Bjørn Fridal
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    Hi,

    Try reading Tim Gaunts blog post and comments on the subject http://blogs.thesitedoctor.co.uk/tim/CommentView,guid,cf6f0226-db49-460d-8de9-7ab3075d6e84.aspx

  • Bjørn Fridal 274 posts 784 karma points
    Jan 13, 2010 @ 12:44
  • shkod 10 posts 62 karma points
    Jan 24, 2010 @ 12:54
    shkod
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    bjawnie, thank you for your reply! Everything works fine.

  • Tim 174 posts 398 karma points
    Feb 19, 2010 @ 13:49
    Tim
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    Glad to hear you got it working, you also have to be careful when you're installing some plug-ins as a lot put themselves into the "/umbraco" directory by default and you'll need to transfer the files over into your new CMS admin directory.

    Although it is a hassle to move the Umbraco admin directory, I still firmly beleive that it's the best thing to do along with renaming the default "admin" login as I see numerous attempts to access the Umbraco directory on non-Umbraco sites.

    I'll blog about how to restrict access further shortly.

    Tim

  • David 26 posts 50 karma points
    Mar 15, 2010 @ 12:41
    David
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    Hi Guys,

    Care for an alternative option?

    I hide my admin folders by using the following URL rewriting rule.  This is currenlty implemented with Helicon ISAPI rewrite however I am sure this could be added into the inbuilt rewriting utility within Umbraco (although I don't know how to do that yet)

    RewriteRule ^(umbraco/login\.aspx.*)|(umbraco/?)$ /NOTFOUND/ [nocase,last]
    RewriteRule ^New-Admin-Folder-Name/(.*)$ /umbraco/$1 [nocase]

    • Replace "New-Admin-Folder-Name" with your choice of admin folder.
    • Replace "Page-Not-Found" with your choice of 404 URL.

    Happy days - please let me know if this works for you :)
    David

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