Can I alter the customer login URL path on my Shopify site to reduce bot attempts?

Technical Q&A
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Where does Shopify define the URL path to the shop customer account login page? :thinking:

I get a lot of bot/spam attempts to login to my site as a customer, and/or create bogus accounts. They ALWAYS come in the door at the *.my-shopify.com/account/login URL, which I suspect 99% of Shopify sites have.

I’d like to change the URL for */account to be something like */my-account, primarily to block the bots. Is the URL to the /account tree (/account, /account/login, etc) defined in the theme or somewhere else in Shopify? Can it be edited?

NOTE: I’m not talking about the login URL for shop administrators, I’m talking about the customer login URL.

Many thanks.

Michael

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The url route can not be changed. It’s also not something the theme would have control over.

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Hi,

dont know if you already found a solution. You can do this:

settings → checkout and accounts → tick the ‘new customer accounts’ under customer account settings

Then under customer account URLs, click manage domain for the new customer accounts and set up a subdomain by clicking ‘connect existing domain’ and put eg. ‘account.YOURDOMAIN.com’

You would need access to your DNS to do this, as you need to create a cname record

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Hi

But Still it doesnt change Login Page URL, domain name URL is there only after login into the customer account page.

Wondering if there any solution for this yet!!

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Hi Jason

Wondering if there any solution for this yet!!!