Drawback:

Joomla has one drawback, any web user can easily know the site is created in Joomla! by typing the URL to access the administration area (i.e. www.site name.com/administration). This makes hackers hack the site easily once they crack id and password for Joomla!.

Information:

jSecure Authentication module prevents access to administration (back end) login page without appropriate access key. This module works only on Joomla 1.0.xx version.

Installation steps:

1. Login to administration area
2. Go to Installer -> Module -> select the mod_jsecure_authentication.zip file.
3. Click on Install & upload.

Once the module is installed there are few manual steps which needs to be followed to make the module work:

1. Add following two lines at the start of login.php in the administration templates (the code should be after defined(...) method).

   require_once( $mosConfig_absolute_path . '/administrator/includes/admin.php' );

   mosLoadAdminModules( 'left' );

2. Login to Administration area
3. Go To Modules->Administrator Modules
4. Click on jSecure Authentication link
5. Enable the module and set the optional parameters specified below
6. Save the module.

Default key to access login page is "jSecure".

Note: The key is case sensitive.

How to Use :

www.site name/administrator/?keyname

keyname: key name is the key specified in the jSecure Authentication module.

Set the Parameters:

jSecure Authentication module provides following parameters:

Key: This is secure key which will be used to grant access to administration area.

Redirect Options: This parameter specifies what action to take if the key does not match. There are two choices:

Redirect to index page: Redirect unauthorized user back to home page

Custom Path: Provide relative path to custom page, for example 404 page not found.

License: This is free software and you may redistribute it under the GPL. jSecure comes with absolutely no warranty. Use at your own risk. For details, see the license at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt Other licenses can be found in LICENSES folder.