Title: WordPress Admin Subdomain
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# WordPress Admin Subdomain

 *  [stopsineman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stopsineman/)
 * (@stopsineman)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-admin-subdomain/)
 * Hello Everyone,
 * I was wondering if there is any problem in creating a subdomain such
    as wordpress.
   domain-name.com to host only your admin interface. In other words, the document
   root would become ‘site-root/wordpress-install-root/wp-admin/’. I’m not sure 
   if the document root needs to contain all of the other parts of the system, or
   if it can just as well operate as it’s own site.
 * Thanks in advance!
 * Timmy V.

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 *  Thread Starter [stopsineman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stopsineman/)
 * (@stopsineman)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-admin-subdomain/#post-740810)
 * FYI, I did some experimenting with this and could not get it to work. So far,
   I can only have the blog root be different than the wordpress install location,
   but any subdomain has to contain the whole application.
 * Any options here? Thanks in advance!
 * Timmy V.
 *  [mort](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mort/)
 * (@mort)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-admin-subdomain/#post-740936)
 * i’ve been wondering about this too.
 * wordpress doesnt lend itself to multi-application sites very well.
 * you could do some crazy htaccess redirects, i guess.
 *  [frames](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frames/)
 * (@frames)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-admin-subdomain/#post-740938)
 * I had this _almost_ working 5 minutes ago like this:
 * `http://domain.com/` <<< main site (with blog)
    `http://admin.domain.com/` <<
   < wordpress site
 * The only downside: you’ll no longer be logged in on main site when you log into
   WordPress.
 * Overview of what I did:
    1. Moved WP core files to a different directory
    2. Moved index.php to main directory (1 and 2 more or less [as per here](http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory)
    3. Created subdomain in Apache
    4. Restarted Apache
    5. Went to main site
 * And that was it, basically! I was a little ‘cheaty’ since my admin subdomain 
   was pointing to the main site + /admin, but that should be OK as long as you 
   change that directory (I imagine it would work with any, even above ‘main’ path)
   in index.php.
 * I haven’t been investigating it any further yet (and I’m thinking if I will really
   use it). In fact, I arrived here looking for some info.
 * Apart from not seeying the ‘edit’ and other admin options in main site, everything
   was OK.

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 * Last reply from: [frames](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frames/)
 * Last activity: [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-admin-subdomain/#post-740938)
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