How-To HIDE Version Number of your forum’s MyBB Installation
Hiding the Version Number of your forum’s MyBB Installation or any forum installation such as PhpBB, or SMF (Simple Machines Forum) is a good security practice for any forum, database, ftp(file transfer protocol) administrator. By hiding the version number of your forum’s MyBB Installation, you are giving forum admin control panel hackers one more obstacle that they have to overcome in order to crack into your forum’s administrative control panel and disrupt your MyBB installation script. Simply follow this short tutorial in order to HIDE the Version Number of your forum’s MyBB Installation.
Step 1. Launch an internet web browser such as Mozilla Firefox or Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE).
Step 2. Browse to your MyBB forum’s admin directory url.
Step 3. Login to your MyBB forum’s admin control panel.
Step 4. Left click once on the “Configuration” tab to access your MyBB forum’s “Board Settings.”
Step 5. Locate and Left Click once on the “Site Details” option, (should be near the top).
Step 6. Scroll all the way down until you locate the “Show Version Numbers” setting.
Step 7. Left click once on the “Off” setting in the “Show Version Numbers” setting.
Step 8. Scroll all the way down and Left Click once on “Save Settings.”
That is it! Simply verify that your version number of your MyBB installation is no longer publicly viewable by browsing to your MyBB forum installation’s index page and associated pages. If the version number is no longer publicly viewable in the footer section of your MyBB installation script, then Congratulations, you have just learned How-To HIDE Version Number of your forum’s MyBB Installation.
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