I Don't have to use an admin login and password, but I want to

[zaagmans]

This question must have been asked a million times, but i'm a newbie.....

 

I have OScommerce installed locally and everything works fine, but if I enter http://localhost/catalog/admin in IE, I get into the admin mode directly. What happens if I put the site on the internet? Is everyone able to change all settings?

 

If so let me know how to change this. In other words, he can I get a admin login screen?

 

Thanks

 

Stephan

[ro88o]

After install you'll notice point 3 says 'Securing The Administration Tool - It is important to secure the Administration Tool as there is currently no security implementation available.' so yes if you put your site onto the internet currently people would be able to access the admin pages.

 

There are many ways to secure it - the most simple being .htaccess/.htpasswd, a quick google search should tell you how to password restrict access to a certain folder on your webserver (ie the admin folder).

 

Hope that helps.

[zaagmans]

After install you'll notice point 3 says 'Securing The Administration Tool - It is important to secure the Administration Tool as there is currently no security implementation available.' so yes if you put your site onto the internet currently people would be able to access the admin pages.

 

There are many ways to secure it - the most simple being .htaccess/.htpasswd, a quick google search should tell you how to password restrict access to a certain folder on your webserver (ie the admin folder).

 

Hope that helps.

 

Ok, thanks for your help :-)

[maxparkman]

Hi ro88o

 

You mentioned that there are many other way to protect admin panel. could you please tell me more? my hosting company has banned the use of .htaccess to secure the dir unless pay for that.

 

cheers

Phil

[ro88o]

You mentioned that there are many other way to protect admin panel. could you please tell me more?

You could use this contribution http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,4121