Allowing admin tool logins?

  • Resolved awlawl

    (@awlawl)


    9 years, 5 months ago

    I want to scale my WordPress site to run on multiple hosts behind a load balancer. In my first attempt , the outward facing website worked fine. However the standard WP admin tools for updating and editing content/themes etc does not. I don’t know exactly how WP maintains the login state, but I did try this plugin and it wasn’t working.

    I installed the plugin from a stock WP install and when I preview the site I normally get the black bar at the top of the site with the admin tools. If I refresh the page over and over, it comes and goes. My suspicion is that whatever host I used to log in is the only one that knows that I am logged in and gives me the admin toolbar. I was hoping that this login was managed via session.

    Should this plugin work for this need?

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  • Plugin Contributor Daniel Bachhuber

    (@danielbachhuber)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    Hi @awlawl,

    WordPress authentication happens via cookies, not sessions, so this plugin won’t have an impact on the problem you’re experiencing.

    If you’re looking for ideas on what to debug, I’d recommend verifying that your load balancer is passing cookies through to the hosts. If it’s not passing cookies through, then you’d see the behavior you’re experiencing.

    Good luck!

    Thread Starter awlawl

    (@awlawl)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    Thanks, thats what I needed to know!

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