Perfect, just what I needed to hear. I'll give it a shot and let you know how it goes.

Ok, so after some trial and error it appears that this can be done, sort of.

It appears that the url pathname /login is referenced a great deal of place in the database. So I would not advise trying to remove or replace references to it.

Here is what I did to disable /login and use /admin instead:

1. Copy /concrete/controllers/login.php to /controllers/admin.php
2. Copy /concrete/single_pages/login.php to /single_pages/admin.php
3. Login to Concrete5 go to Dashboard > Pages and Themes > Single Pages and add "admin"

Now I can login via mysite.com/admin and mysite.com/login.

Here is how I "disabled" mysite.com/login

1. Create a blank single_pages/login.php
2. Optionally add the "Main" block area to the page. (Like you would if this was a themes default.php)

Ok so this doesn't really remove /login. But at least now I can use this page for other content.

Also be sure to adjust /config/site_theme_paths.php to use your sites theme for /login

If anyone knows a better way to do this, please let me know.

Thanks Mnkras for your help :)

Hi,

Not sure if useful for you, but maybe useful anyway to the community:

Because I'm paranoid and due to security and DOS (deny of service) concerns, I've restricted my login page only to my [LAN] IP address.

I've done this employing mod_rewrite in Apache. I have separate configuration files for each of my websites. In the configuration file of http://www.jquantlib.com/ I've put something like this:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^192\.168\.6\.83$
RewriteRule ^/index.php/login/ - [F]
</IfModule>

... which means:

if REMOTE_ADDR is not 192.168.6.83
AND
if URL iswww.www.jquantlib.com/index.php/login/...

THEN [F]ail (403 - Forbidden).

Alternatively, I could redirect to another page, but I really don't think fishers deserve such effort from my side :D

I hope it helps.

Richard Gomes
http://tinyurl.com/frgomes

I need to do this (i.e. change the name of the /login.php page) but am running a newer version of C5. Is there a way to do this in 5.6.x that is easier?

There are lots of popup and slideout login widgets you can get as addons. With those, your users need never see the actual login page.

Since this post is close to 4 years old, (and I can't find a similar thread) is this process still the same to change the login URL with the current version of C5?