Allow renaming of admin folder for better security. #369 #391
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As part of general website security, these changes can be incorporated as part of #369.
Despite a lot of file changes, most simply change the hard-coded 'admin' folder to use a new global constant 'ADMIN'. This ADMIN constant is automatically calculated when using the backend interface (see admin/index.php), and should be manually added to defines.php if needed for user management in the front end.
The only issues beyond this were:
The Information > Security tab has been updated to describe the actions an admininstrator needs to take (rename admin folder and add ADMIN to defines.php). See screenshot below