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[resolved] Dashboard via Different Domain Name? (6 posts)

  1. tedfitzpatrick
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Hi,

    I'm looking for info. on how to set up WordPress so that the Dashboard's available via a different domain name than the domain name that people use to view the front end of the website. Any leads?

    Thanks,

    Ted

  2. Ipstenu
    Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
    Posted 1 year ago #

    You really don't. Why would you want to do this anyway?

  3. tedfitzpatrick
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Security without an SSL certificate (we're too cheap!). I have users on an internal network -- if these users can only update the website via a domain name that's available internally to our network, then I can ensure that no updates are made via the public (external) domain name. I can configure Apache to not allow connections to the Dashboard URLs from the public domain name. I'm currently investigating how I might set this up ...

    :-)

  4. Ipstenu
    Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Hrm.

    Well. You could TRY changing WordPress address (URL) to 'secretadmindomain.com' and then keep Site address (URL) as 'publicdomain.com' but I have no idea if that would work at all.

    Domain mapping CAN be done with WordPress MultiSite (there's a plugin for it), but I don't know how it works.

  5. Eric Mann
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Well. You could TRY changing WordPress address (URL) to 'secretadmindomain.com' and then keep Site address (URL) as 'publicdomain.com' but I have no idea if that would work at all.

    When I first started using domain mapping, that was the exact situation I had. My sites' WordPress Address were along the lines of http://dashboard.domain.url/SITE but the Site Addresses were along the lines of http://SITE.org. The frontend only ever used the site address, but the admin screen was accessible from the WordPress Address.

    The biggest consequence was with attached images. If you uploaded an image, the WordPress Address was hard coded into the URL (http://dashboard.domain.url/SITE/files/2011/05/image.jpg). But you can substitute in the correct URL without any problems (http://SITE.org/files/2011/05/image.jpg).

  6. tedfitzpatrick
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Thank you both!

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