Change drupalsite/user to drupalsite/customadmin

Question

Currently to login as an admin I need to navigate to the URL http://drupal.mysite.com/user and then I am logging in with userid admin.

I want to change the user part of the URL to my own custom URL containing customadmin, so that I can navigate to my login page with URL http://drupal.mysite.com/customadmin (instead of URL http://drupal.mysite.com/user).

I know there are some core file that can be changed to do this, like:

'H:\xampp\htdocs\mydrupal\modules\user\user.module'

I.e by modifying the hook menu for login like so:

/**
   * Custom menu for login
   */
  $items['customadmin'] = array(
    'title' => 'User account',
    'title callback' => 'user_menu_title',
    'page callback' => 'user_page',
    'access callback' => TRUE,
    'file' => 'user.pages.inc',
    'weight' => -10,
    'menu_name' => 'user-menu',
  );

But I wonder if there is some other way to do this (instead of making changes in core files, which is not recommended of course).

Answer 1

Do not edit core files (ever).

You can do this without code by setting a path alias for the /user path.

Go to admin/config/search/path/add and add the alias customadmin for existing path user:

Now if you go go to /customadmin you will see the login or user page. If you want to ensure that that the /user path also redirects to /customadmin, just enable the Global Redirect module (no configuration needed).