X-Cart Articles & Tutorials:

By default x-cart installs to an xcart folder, which is great advertising for x-cart, but not so great for you; for security and to keep information from competitors, you do not want to advertise your software. This tutorial will assist you in moving your store out of the xcart folder, and moving it to root (alternatively you could change the instructions accordingly to change to a different subfolder). ..

The x-cart admin folder is commonly known to be /admin making it a target for malicious users. Changing the folder name/location provides an added level of security. The x-cart admin folder can be changed as follows: Log into your x-cart host using an FTP program. Access the path to your x-cart files and rename the folder "admin" to the name of your choice. We will call this "newadmin." ..