Title: Reasonable SSL Login Admin Solution?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Reasonable SSL Login Admin Solution?

 *  Resolved [mad4wp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mad4wp/)
 * (@mad4wp)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reasonable-ssl-loginadmin-solution/)
 * I’ve been looking for a solution for administrating a WP blog over SSL since 
   the begining of last year. Among the many that exist:
    [Using mod_proxy](http://blog.blackdown.de/2006/01/22/securing-wordpress-2-admin-access-with-ssl/):
   not available on my host. [An all SSL WP](http://www.almosteffortless.com/wordpress/force-ssl/):
   nope, visitors should go to http. [Passwordless, SSL-based, logins](http://weblogtoolscollection.com/pluginblog/2005/06/01/secure-login/):
   Cookie can still be stolen, only login is thru SSL. and, of course, [Administration Over SSL](http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Over_SSL):
   does this work with 2.0.1?
 * Isn’t there an up-to-date hack/plugin that makes it possible to view the blog
   over http and login and admin *only* thru https?

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 *  Thread Starter [mad4wp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mad4wp/)
 * (@mad4wp)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reasonable-ssl-loginadmin-solution/#post-332205)
 * Solved!!
 * Converted to [Movable Type…](http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/)
 *  [vaamyob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vaamyob/)
 * (@vaamyob)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reasonable-ssl-loginadmin-solution/#post-332208)
 * Now you need to change your nick to mad4mt.
 * Movable Type may have been an option for me if I wanted to learn perl.
 *  Thread Starter [mad4wp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mad4wp/)
 * (@mad4wp)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reasonable-ssl-loginadmin-solution/#post-332214)
 * Maybe I will…
 * I’ve been tinkering with WP for over a year trying to get it to meet my needs.
   Yes, WP is popular, extendable and easy to learn *but* it has real maintainance
   and security issues. Alas, I failed, even with all the plugins, hacks and themes
   I tried, WP manages to be a show-stopper for my projects because of some WP design
   decisions.
 * I tried [crazy]Xaraya, EE, etc but never thought of trying Movable Type because
   I know no Perl, $$, etc. However, 2 days ago I went ahead and started playing
   with its free version and, to my surprise, the thing works like a charm. I mean,
   MT 3.2 is so well designed to the point that I don’t have to touch a line of 
   Perl.
 * Anyway, maybe WP 3.0 will be different?
    I’m starting to have this image of WP
   as another MS Win: any kid can use it, there are lots of SW for it and it looks
   nice on day one; but every time you think about using it as an Internet server,
   you get a gut feeling you’ll regret it. You read more, you test and you discover
   that you have a heck of gut!
 *  [vaamyob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vaamyob/)
 * (@vaamyob)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reasonable-ssl-loginadmin-solution/#post-332216)
 * What are the alternatives to WP (must be PHP) ?
 * I’ve only used WP so I don’t know what its weakness/strengths are.
 *  [awsm1th](https://wordpress.org/support/users/awsm1th/)
 * (@awsm1th)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reasonable-ssl-loginadmin-solution/#post-332375)
 * Just want to say that with a little hacking you can get WordPress to go over 
   secure connecitons for your admin tasks. Based on [this method](http://noctis.de/2006/03/using-wordpress-with-ssl/),
   I was able to set mine up as described [here](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/88428?replies=4#post-451633).
 *  [haristv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/haristv/)
 * (@haristv)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reasonable-ssl-loginadmin-solution/#post-332415)
 * Here’s a plugin that will pass wp-admin over SSL and translate http:// to https://
   automagically:
 * [http://haris.tv/2007/01/11/wordpress-ssl-plugin-secure-admin-patched-and-working](http://haris.tv/2007/01/11/wordpress-ssl-plugin-secure-admin-patched-and-working)

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## Tags

 * [HTTPS](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/https/)
 * [SSL](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/ssl/)

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 * Last activity: [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reasonable-ssl-loginadmin-solution/#post-332415)
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