Is it possible to install the admin on a different host?

[PeterDK]

Hi,

My site is 'www.peterdekeer.be', the admin is currently installed under /processwire/.

Is it possible to install it under 'admin.peterdekeer.be'?

I read a few weeks ago about the admin that it's possible to couple it somewhat looser.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thx

[ESRCH]

I would assume that the simplest way would be to modify the .htaccess file by:

• Redirecting www.peterdekeer.be/admin to admin.peterdekeer.be; and below that,
• Rewriting admin.peterdekeer.be as www.peterdekeer.be/admin

I must admit that I would have to look up how to do this exactly...

[ESRCH]

Hmmm... Probably not that simple, since admin urls would also need to the right place.

Maybe the code of the Multi Site module (Github) by apeisa could give some indications on how to proceed?

[Mike Rockett]

Hi Peter,

I'm not 100% sure if it's possible. Any particular reason you want to do it? Do you know that you can change the admin route (well, page) at any time?

[PeterDK]

I want to do this so I can disable cookies for my 'just content and informantion' website.

If I disable it on the whole server, I cannot get into the admin anymore (normal ofcourse).

So if I can install the admin seperatly, I can disable it on my content site, not on the admin (.htaccess).

Why do I want cookies disabled? For performance reasons! My host comes with varnish installed by default (Gandi.net)

If I activate Varnish I get insanely good response times.

The cookies interfere with that (when Varnish sees a cookie, it thinks the content is 'user specific' but it's not).

Drupal does this already for quite some time (please see the discussion, reasons and solutions there - "Drupal should support disabling anonymous sessions")

[horst]

@PeterDK, I'm not sure if this is really possible nor if it is a good idea, but I want to throw it into the discussion:

If you can use symlinks, maybe you can setup two hosts that point to the same directories of wire and site, but have there own index.php and own .htaccess.

admin.domain.tld
  |
  |--index
  |--htaccess
  |
  |-------------------site-symlink----------|
  |-------------------wire-symlink--------| |
                                          | |
                                          | |---------------------site-real
                                          |                     |
                                          |---------wire-real   |
                                               |                |
                                               |                |
  |-------------------wire-symlink-------------|                |
  |-------------------site-symlink------------------------------------
  |
  |--index
  |--htaccess
  |
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