Mura CMS : How to disable front end tools and front end editing for public facing sites. This would then allow you to completely delete/remove the 'admin' directory from the production server, and only host it on a dev/staging server that's hosted behind a firewall, assuming each instance is pointing to the same database. NOTE: Do NOT delete you…

muraDisableFrontEndTools.cfm

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	1) Drop this method in your /config/cfapplication.cfm and modify it as you wish.
	   For example, maybe you only want to allow front end tools if editing the site behind your firewall
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<cfscript>
  public boolean function getEnableFrontEndTools() {
    return getPageContext().getRequest().getServerName() == 'someURLAccessibleOnlyBehindYourFirewall.com';
  }
</cfscript>

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	2) Edit the /config/settings.ini.cfm and add the following setting
	   This setting will now be dynamically read in by Mura by calling the method defined above.
--->
enableFrontEndTools=${getEnableFrontEndTools()}

<!--- 3) Finally, reload Mura! --->