Change Login URL

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I have a remote site with a changed login url. I want to mirror this on my local installation and have used a plugin on both sites.

How do I change the url so the Admin button in Local goes to my new url?

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Hi Stuart,

We’ll look into supporting this!

What plugin are you using to change the login path?

3

Hi Clay,

Is there a way for me to change it on my local installation anywhere?

I’m using WPS Hide Login which makes it easy to change this on the fly for clients!

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Not at the moment. Right now it simply appends /wp-admin to the URL.

Thanks! We’ll look into supporting this and other popular hide login plugins automatically.

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Thanks Clay,

Two feature requests then:

  1. Field to set a custom login URL
  2. Ability to change db prefix prior to creating a local installation.

Both of these are security features I’m doing quite often (#2 - always!)

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Any way to do this since? Automatically supporting all the different plugins that do this won’t work IMO. Custom login and security plugins do this in different ways, renaming wp-admin and/or wp-login.php.

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Hi @dgma,

Right now it’s not supported.

One thing you can do is use the Custom environment in Local and adjust the web server config accordingly to redirect /wp-admin and /wp-login.php to the hidden paths. The config files are in the site’s app/conf directory.

Using the actual web server configs to do this will ensure that it won’t redirect when you push your site to your host. :slight_smile:

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Great idea. I think Apache redirects require absolute URLs for the target, though. It seems that this way when I clone a site or create a new site based on a blueprint, the redirects will all point to the original site’s backend. Any way to avoid that? Also, will this configuration not be overwritten when the next Local update is installed?

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Never mind, it was easier to do using PHP for me.