Title: Setup Lan and Wan Access Last modified: March 6, 2021 --- # Setup Lan and Wan Access * [infoatintomusic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/infoatintomusic/) * (@infoatintomusic) * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setup-lan-and-wan-access/) * Hi. * I may have a unique problem and I’m not quite sure where to post it so I’ll try here. * The situation is as this. We are a housing association and I’ve been tasked to upgrade to wordpress for us all. This has now been done. Design, content, optimization and all that is now complete. * We, however, need to divide/split access to some pages and posts within a LAN and others to WAN. It may be easier to just give an example. (www.example.com as mentioned in the thread is only an example and not a valid url) * Out of 10 pages, 3 of them may only be watched by people inside the housing Association( we have our own subnet) but the other 7 may be accessed by anyone inside or outside the LAN. * So, for anyone in the world surfing to [http://www.example.com](http://www.example.com) they will be able to see 7 pages (or 10 pages but the content on the 3 restricted ones will not be available) but if anyone in the LAN or internal network goes to [http://www.example.com](http://www.example.com) they will be able to access/ see 10 pages. * If I set it up with user-based access all our users would have to logon and all worldly users too to be able to see a post. Tat is not possible as the administration would be horrendous. * I hope I have explained it well enough as I am at a loss here. * Thanks beforehadd for any help. - This topic was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by [infoatintomusic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/infoatintomusic/). Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) * [George Appiah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gappiah/) * (@gappiah) * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setup-lan-and-wan-access/#post-14145584) * > Out of 10 pages, 3 of them may only be watched by people inside the housing > Association (we have our own subnet) but the other 7 may be accessed by anyone > inside or outside the LAN. * Create an ACL (access control list) allowing page access based on IP address. You can do this using a [WordPress plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-access-manager/), on your [webserver](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-to-restrict-access-to-single-wp-page-by-ip/), or even in your network’s router/firewall (if the server is hosted within the network). * > If I set it up with user-based access all our users would have to logon and > all worldly users too to be able to see a post. * No, it doesn’t have to be “all private” OR “all public:” you can make only the 3 “restricted” pages PRIVATE (requiring your members to login to access), and leave everything else PUBLIC (no login required to access). * Thread Starter [infoatintomusic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/infoatintomusic/) * (@infoatintomusic) * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setup-lan-and-wan-access/#post-14168267) * George. * Thank you kindly. I’ll look into the ACL thing. Appreciate it. * We have 2000+ people coming ang going though, we will not be able to administer access via a login page. * Thanks again. Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) The topic ‘Setup Lan and Wan Access’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [external](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/external/) * [internal](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/internal/) * [LAN](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/lan/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 2 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [infoatintomusic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/infoatintomusic/) * Last activity: [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setup-lan-and-wan-access/#post-14168267) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics