This article will show you how to open the admin panel for your website. This can be done on the hosting site, and on a Windows computer, use the Havij program to find the address of the admin panel if you don't know it.
Steps
Method 1 of 2: How to open the site admin panel
Step 1. Make sure you are trying to open your site's admin panel
If you know the admin credentials (such as email and password), enter them on a specific page to open the admin panel for your website.
Step 2. Try to open the admin panel on the hosting site
Most hosting provider sites (like WordPress, Weebly, GoDaddy, and so on) have a control panel that can be accessed by logging into the hosting site.
For example, in the case of a WordPress domain, go to the hosting site (https://www.wordpress.com/), click Login, enter your credentials, click My Site, scroll down and click Admin to open admin panel
Step 3. Determine the base address of the website
Do this if you cannot open the admin panel from the hosting site. The base address is the website address that most users see.
For example, Facebook's base address is
Step 4. Add different admin tags to the base address
If you are unable to open the admin panel from the hosting site, try doing it directly; to do this, try to navigate to the following addresses:
- www.website.com/admin
- www.website.com/administrator
- www.website.com/user
- www.website.com/login
- www.website.com/login.aspx
- www.website.com/wp-login.php
- www.website.com/admin.php
- www.website.com/wp-admin
Step 5. Enter your username or email address
The authorization page will display two lines: enter your username or email address in the top line "Email" or "Username".
Step 6. Enter your password
Enter the administrator password in the Password line below the Username or Email line.
Step 7. Click "Login"
Typically, this button is located under the "Password" line. Your site admin panel will open.
Method 2 of 2: How to find the URL of the admin panel using Havij
Step 1. Understand how this method works
The free Havij program scans the base address (like your website url) and looks for the admin panel address. Havij often finds more than 100 addresses, so use this program only as a last resort.
Havij does not support Mac OS X
Step 2. Download Havij
Go to the page with the Havij installation file. The process of downloading the Havij_1.12_Free.zip archive will start.
In some browsers, you need to allow downloads or specify a download folder
Step 3. Extract the installation file
Double-click the downloaded zip file, click the Extract tab at the top of the window, and then click Extract All. When prompted, enter darknet123 as the password and then click Extract to extract the Havij installation file.
At this point, the extracted Havij folder will open
Step 4. Install Havij
Double click on the file "Havij 1.12 Free" and then:
- click Next four times;
- click “Install”;
- check the box next to "Launch Havij";
- click Finish.
Step 5. Wait for Havij to launch
Now you can start looking for the address of the admin panel.
Step 6. Click Find Admin
It's a blue, person-shaped icon at the top of the window.
Step 7. Enter your website address
In the “Path to search” box, enter your website address.
Step 8. Click Start
This button is to the right of the line with the website address.
Step 9. Wait while Havij finds the URL of the site admin panel
The addresses will appear at the bottom of the window as they scan.
- As soon as Havij finds all available addresses, a corresponding message will be displayed at the bottom of the window.
- If the addresses do not appear at the bottom of the window, close Havij and then reopen it by typing havij in the Start menu
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Windowsstart , and then click "Havij" at the top of this menu.
Step 10. Try to navigate to the addresses found by Havij
Copy the address that appears at the bottom of the Havij window and paste this address into the address bar of your browser. If you're prompted for the site admin credentials, you've found the admin panel; to open this panel, enter your email address (or username) and password.