Creating a second admin domain for CMS access
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I’m running a multisite WordPress installation hosting about 100 sites. Here is my intended setup for production: one server running ARR on IIS sitting in front of servers that only respond to HTTPS requests for the CMS.
The CMS server in my lab is running https://www.wordpress.dev. The ARR server receives requests for https://www.wordpress.cms.dev and forwards the request with the host header https://www.wordpress.dev and rewrites the outbound content replacing https://www.wordpress.dev with https://www.wordpress.cms.dev. So far, so good. The problem comes when I try to hit https://www.wordpress.cms.dev/wp-admin/. This issues a 302 redirect to https://www.wordpress.dev/wp-login.php?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wordpress.dev%2Fwp-admin%2F&reauth=1.
Here are my current rewrite rules on the ARR server:
<rewrite> <globalRules> <clear /> <rule name="ARR_wordpress_loadbalance" patternSyntax="Wildcard" stopProcessing="true"> <match url="*" /> <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false"> <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="*.wordpress.dev" /> <add input="{SERVER_PORT}" pattern="80" /> </conditions> <action type="Rewrite" url="http://wordpress/{R:0}" /> </rule> <rule name="ARR_wordpress-ssl_loadbalance" enabled="true" patternSyntax="Wildcard" stopProcessing="true"> <match url="*" /> <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="true"> <add input="{OriginServers:{HTTP_HOST}}" pattern="*" /> <add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="on" /> </conditions> <action type="Rewrite" url="https://wordpress-ssl/{R:0}" /> <serverVariables> <set name="HTTP_X_FORWARDED_HOST" value="{HTTP_HOST}" /> <set name="HTTP_HOST" value="{C:1}" /> </serverVariables> </rule> </globalRules> <rewriteMaps> <rewriteMap name="OriginServers"> <add key="www.wordpress.cms.dev" value="www.wordpress.dev" /> </rewriteMap> <rewriteMap name="OutboundMap"> <add key="www.wordpress.dev" value="www.wordpress.cms.dev" /> </rewriteMap> </rewriteMaps> <allowedServerVariables> <add name="HTTP_HOST" /> <add name="HTTP_X_FORWARDED_HOST" /> </allowedServerVariables> <outboundRules> <rule name="Outbound Rule" preCondition="IsHTTPS" enabled="true" patternSyntax="Wildcard"> <match filterByTags="A, Area, Base, Form, Frame, Head, IFrame, Img, Input, Link, Script" pattern="https://*/*" /> <conditions trackAllCaptures="false"> <add input="{OutboundMap:{R:1}}" pattern="*" /> </conditions> <action type="Rewrite" value="https://{C:1}/{R:2}" /> </rule> </outboundRules> </rewrite> <proxy enabled="false" preserveHostHeader="false"> <cache enabled="false" /> </proxy>Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
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