How can I change the URL to the Django admin interface?

Question

For an extra little bit of security I want to change the default django admin url to the custom one, e.g. change mysite.com/admin/ to mysite.com/mysecretadmin/ so that admin is completely unaccessible via default url.

I tried some solutions from the internet, for example I changed urls.py like this:

from django.conf.urls import patterns, url, include
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()

urlpatterns = patterns('api.views',
    ...,
    ...,
    url(r'^secret-admin-url/', include(admin.site.urls)),
)

Nothing worked for me, sadly. Does anyone know the solution? I use django 1.5.4.

Answer 1

Refer to the section 'Hooking AdminSite instances into your URLconf' in the url below https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/admin/#hooking-adminsite-to-urlconf