Protect the installation page

- [Narrator] In this video, you'll see how to…protect the WordPress installation file…using a variety of different methods.…Protecting the installation file is important…because if things go wrong on the server,…it could be used by an attacker to gain access to your site.…Here we are looking at the WordPress install.php file,…which is located in the wp-admin directory.…This file is used when installing WordPress…and should be removed or protected…after the installation process is complete.…There are three different ways to do this.…

Method 1, we can simply delete the file…after installing WordPress.…Method 2, we can deny access to the file using htaccess…or Method 3, we can replace the file…with something more useful.…Any of these methods takes only a minute…and works just fine.…Let's run through each of them.…Method 1, delete the file.…The first method is to just delete the file from the server.…There is no reason to keep it after WordPress is installed.…The only real downside to this approach is…that WordPress may replace the missing file…