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August 08, 2012 2:47pm
Subscribe [2]#1 / Aug 08, 2012 2:47pm
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I remember back in EE1, the documentation explicitly recommended that you change your system folder name.
For a while, I noticed this isn’t stated explicitly in the EE2 docs. On the last few EE2 installs I actually haven’t bothered changing it — does it still pose a security risk to not rename your system folder in EE2?
#2 / Aug 08, 2012 3:15pm
Not if you move it above web root as the docs now recommend. If you don’t do that I’d certainly change it.
#3 / Aug 09, 2012 11:02am
Hi, Boom Shiddang -
As Mike said, if you follow the best practice of moving your system folder above web-root, then renaming is not necessary.
Does that help?