In a default installation of Zen Cart, the IP Footer Display looks like this:

To turn off the ‘Your IP Address’ display in the footer of Zen Cart:

1. Log in to your Zen Cart store Admin
2. From the Configuration menu, select Layout Settings.
   
3. Select Footer – Show IP Address status and then click on the Edit button.
   
4. Select 0 (Off) and the click on the Update button.
   

The customer’s IP address will still be logged as part of the order and payment processes.  This change affects the footer display only.

More Zen Cart:

1. Turn on or off the display of the page parse time
2. Anatomy of the Zen Cart Footer
3. Turn on / Turn off the display of the Order History Sidebox
4. Edit the Zen Cart Site Copyright Display in Footer
5. Change the address format for a country in Zen Cart

By default, the Admin for your Zen Cart store is accessed by adding /admin to your store’s address.  For example: www.store.com/admin/.

Note:  As a security precaution your admin folder should be renamed as part of the install procedure.  If you have not done this yet, visit Rename your Zen Cart Admin Folder for more details.  For those that have already renamed your admin folder, don’t forget to use your new folder name.  For example, instead of visiting http://www.store.com/admin/, it would be http://www.store.com/itswdTB67/.

The Zen Cart Admin allows you to configure your store’s settings easily as well as having all the tools you will need to manage your store’s operations on a day-to-day basis.

Zen Cart Admin Menu

All the configuration settings and tools are available from the 11 main menus:

1. Configuration
2. Catalog
3. Modules
4. Customers
5. Locations
6. Taxes
7. Localization
8. Reports
9. Tools
10. Gift Certificate/Coupons
11. Extras

Useful Links

The following links are provided:

1. Admin Home
2. Online Catalog
3. Support Site
4. Version
5. Logoff

Zen Cart Admin Dashboard

Information for store owners is available through these dashboard items:

1. Statistics
2. Orders
3. New Customers
4. Counter History
5. New Orders

More Zen Cart:

1. Rename Zen Cart Admin folder for increased security
2. Upgrade to Zen Cart 1.39g – Admin Warning
3. Adding a new Admin user in your Zen Cart Store
4. Zen Cart Admin
5. Zen Cart Admin > Configuration Menu

Think of a new folder name.  For maximum security you may want to consider using a combination of numbers, upper and lower case letters in the folder name.  An easy way to remember your new folder name is to use the initials of a phrase such as a song name.  As an example take Lucy in the sky with diamonds by The Beatles from 1967.  The admin folder name could be litswdTB67.

Before you start, make sure you have a current backup of both your Zen Cart store files and the Zen Cart store database.

While this is a simple change, it needs to be addressed carefully.  Do not use a find-and-replace feature to make these changes. Also, pay particular attention to avoid making changes to the forward slash part of the paths (/).

1. Edit the /admin/includes/configure.php file

   Change the file permissions on admin/includes/configure.php file to be writable.

   Using your favourite FTP program, download a copy of the /admin/includes/configure.php file and open it with a simple text editor.

   Change all instances of admin to your chosen new admin folder name.

   Change this section:

   define('DIR_WS_ADMIN'), '/admin/');
   define('DIR_WS_CATALOG'), '/');
   define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_ADMIN'), '/admin/');
   define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG'), '/');

   And this section:

   define('DIR_FS_ADMIN'), '/home/mystore/www/public/admin/');
   define('DIR_FS_CATALOG'), '/home/mystore/www/public/');

   After your changes :

   define('DIR_WS_ADMIN'), '/litswdTB67/');
   define('DIR_WS_CATALOG'), '/');
   define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_ADMIN'), '/litswdTB67/');
   define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG'), '/');

   And this:

   define('DIR_FS_ADMIN'), '/home/mystore/www/public/litswdTB67/');
   define('DIR_FS_CATALOG'), '/home/mystore/www/public/');

   Upload the modified file using your FTP program.

   Reset the file permissions to Read-Only.

2. Rename the admin folder

   Using your FTP program or your webhost’s File Manager, rename the admin folder to match the name you selected above (for example, litswdTB67).

   This is a matter of either selecting the file and clicking on Rename or right-clicking on the file and selecting Rename.

3. Login to the Zen Cart Store Admin with the new address

   Accessing your store admin is now via the new address.  In this example, instead of visiting http://www.store.com/admin/, it is now http://www.store.com/itswdTB67/.

More Zen Cart:

1. Log in to your Zen Cart Admin
2. Upgrade to Zen Cart 1.39g – Admin Warning
3. Remove zc_install folder
4. Adding a new Admin user in your Zen Cart Store
5. Zen Cart Admin > Configuration Menu