What are the ways I can protect my admin path?

[caththere]

What are the ways I can protect my admin path, using my cpanel only?

[DPG]

Password protect the ADMIN folder to give a second line of defence. You can do through cpanel.

If possible rename the ADMIN folder to somthing obscure e.g XzY1tF2Gh8Aj but ensure all references to the ADMIN folder in the software also refer to the new name.

Here's a link to the cpanel Help tutorial

http://www.cpanel.net/media/tutorials/passwdprotect.htm

Don't call the user to the cpanel protected folder ADMIN otherwise people are halfway to getting in !!! Have a strong password as well.

[northy]

If you're on Linux hosting you could put a .htaccess file in your admin folder - this will do a server challenge/response, so they won't even see the admin folder without getting through that. Do a search for 'htaccess password generator' in Google - dynamic drive have quite a good one, which also explains how it works. We've done that on a few sites that have had hack attempts- it worked a treat.

[edmondscommerce]

set up a subdomain for your admin but dont actually configure it in your DNS, then any machines that you want to be able to access admin you will need to edit the HOSTS file:

123.123.123.123 admin.mydomain.com

where 123.123.123.123 is the servers IP address

[Faevilangel]

You could restrict viewing to the admin contents, just have a .htaccess file with the following added to it.

order allow,deny
allow from 123.45.6.7


Change 123.45.6.7 to your IP address, check your ip here (http://whatismyipaddress.com/)

You do need linux hosting for this