zaagmans Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ro88o Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaagmans Posted December 31, 2006 Author Share Posted December 31, 2006 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 :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxparkman Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ro88o Posted January 1, 2007 Share Posted January 1, 2007 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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