how can I change the admin url?

Question

Is it possible to have the administration pages on a different place than /admin?

so something like: www.mysite.com/someotheradminlocation

I don't want the admin location to be guessable by hackers.

Answer 1

This should be very easy. It's under Site building > URL aliases > Add alias (admin/build/path/add) You can add a new URL alias there.

So if you can't find it you might need to install the pathauto module

solution 2

If you are using Drupal 6, you can get the same feature by using the following code in your settings.php file.

function custom_url_rewrite_outbound(&$path, &$options, $original_path) {
    if (preg_match('|^admin(?![^/])(.*)|', $path, $matches)) {
        $path = 'backend'. $matches[1];
    }
}

function custom_url_rewrite_inbound(&$result, $path, $path_language) {
    if (preg_match('|^backend(?![^/])(.*)|', $path, $matches)) {
        $result = 'admin'. $matches[1];
    }
    if (preg_match('|^admin(?![^/])(.*)|', $path, $matches)) {
        $result = '404'. $matches[1];
    }
}

Answer 2

There is a module to do what monymirza suggested - http://drupal.org/project/rename_admin_paths

The purpose of this module is to secure drupal backend by overriding admin path.