Title: Remote authentication/access
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Remote authentication/access

 *  [loketing](https://wordpress.org/support/users/loketing/)
 * (@loketing)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remote-authenticationaccess/)
 * Hi everyone,
 * I recently installed WordPress 3.0.1 with LAMPP on Ubuntu 10.04, and I’m trying
   to give an external application access to certain parts of WordPress.
 * More specifically, I want to give a C++ application access to creating WordPress
   users by using `wp_create_user()`. I want to achieve this by either creating 
   some sort of plugin, or by creating a custom PHP script. I can, of course, manually
   insert the user data into the MySQL database, but this is a cumbersome process,
   and in my eyes a poor design choice, and not very portable.
 * Is there a “quick” way to achieve this type of access in WordPress? I’m not entirely
   familiar with this type of application, but I’m fairly competent in PHP and C
   ++. I wanted to use HTTP Authentication, but I’m having trouble using headers
   with PHP since the headers have already been sent by WordPress.
 * Also, from what I gather from the [PHP documentation](http://php.net/manual/en/features.http-auth.php),
   this method is only supported by Apache, and might be hard to use on an Ngingx
   server.
 * Am I going about this the wrong way, or is this the preferred method of remote
   access? Any help with this is greatly appreciated.
 * Regards

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 * [authentication](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/authentication/)
 * [Remote](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/remote/)

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remote-authenticationaccess/)
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