Secure Your MyBB Forum

There are quick and easy ways of securing your MyBB forum - the steps are almost always extremely basic and very practical!


There are quick and easy ways of securing your MyBB forum; the steps are almost always extremely basic and very practical! I have created 10 tutorials in which you can follow and further safeguard your MyBB forum. I have tried my best to write all the steps in a very concise, but detailed manner so you can easily understand.

I have prepared a check-list of all the measures you can take in making your MyBB Forum as secure as possible. By completing all of them, your forums should be extremely difficult to exploit:

  1. Change the Admin Control Panel Directory
  2. Remove Version Numbers Completely from Public's Eyes
  3. Check and Update to the Latest MyBB Version
  4. Setup .htaccess For Added Admin Control Panel Protection
  5. Backup Regularly
  6. Replace Copyright Text with an Image Version
  7. Change Database Prefix
  8. Disable Debug View
  9. Add Stringent Registration and Login Parameters
  10. Sign up to the MyBB Mailing List


Tutorials created and provided by MyBB Games.