Single site install, subdirectory, prefixed wp-admin

  • Resolved joelworsham

    (@joelworsham)


    9 years, 5 months ago

    I have a site up and running, and it works great, except one thing…

    All wordpress files are in a subdirectory on the server named “wordpress”. The index file in the root points to this, and it all works fine. The one small caveat is that when accessing the backend, everything is prefixed with “wordpress”, such as: “examplesite.com/wordpress/wp-admin/”.

    Why is this and can I fix it?

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  • Matt Knowles

    (@aestheticdesign)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    The why is because that’s where the files actually are and WordPress doesn’t use .htaccess to change the URL on the backend.

    The plugin Rename wp-admin can fix that for you by allowing you to use some else for the login.

    for example even it the files are in /wordpress/wp-admin, you could set the login to be examplesite.com/login

    The plugin is mostly made to improve security by hiding where you login page is so it can’t be attacked with brute force. But I do like it for making the login URL shorter too.

    Just follow their advice don’t actually use login as the directory.

    Thread Starter joelworsham

    (@joelworsham)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    Thanks for the info, though this plugin I found (Rename wp-login.php) only seems to rename the login url, and not the entire wp-admin url.

    Is it possible to set-up the htaccess to apply some url rules to the entire backend to shorten the url to the normal “/wp-admin”? Or this is simply not possible?

    Ella

    (@ellatrix)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    Impossible if you want everything to work properly.

    Thread Starter joelworsham

    (@joelworsham)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    Alright, well it’s definitely livable, just was curios. Thanks for the replies.

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