Secure WordPress Admin With SSL & Proxy

  • iAndrew

    (@iandrew)


    8 years, 8 months ago

    Greetings WordPress Support!

    Here’s the scope:

    I have a customer who’s WordPress website lives on http://learnwpt.mtwpsandbox.com/ and a proxy (CloudFlare) implemented so that the learnwpt.com/blog/ displays the blog. The learnwpt.com/blog/ is hosted with GoDaddy and the http://learnwpt.mtwpsandbox.com/ is hosted on SiteGround.

    I am looking to securing the back end with a SSL certificate all without breaking the learnwpt.com/blog/ and the WordPress back end.

    I am aware of the Reverse Proxy codex article that informs me to place the proxy code on the functions.php page.

    
define('FORCE_SSL_ADMIN', true);
// in some setups HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO might contain 
// a comma-separated list e.g. http,https
// so check for https existence
if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO'], 'https') !== false)
       $_SERVER['HTTPS']='on';

    Looking to implement the solution efficiently and effectively.

    Thank you in advance!

    • This topic was modified 8 years, 8 months ago by iAndrew.
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  • Achyuth Ajoy

    (@achyuthajoy)

    8 years, 7 months ago

    Hi Andrew,
    The site seems completely broken. Made any changes?

    Thread Starter iAndrew

    (@iandrew)

    8 years, 7 months ago

    Hello Achyuth!

    No the website’s front end is viewed on learnwpt.com/blog/ – the proxy points users to the URI provided.

    The website you saw is where the admin lives. Even though you saw the website, the real website lives on learnwpt.com/blog/.

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