I'm sure that when you fiddle a bit with some RewriteCond's and RewriteRules you can accomplish what you want out-of-the-box.
J On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Gulkamal Singh <lund.singh.1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Lets say that I have a domain hosting a public facing website ( > www.mywebsite.com). Now lets say that - > > 1) Security is not a big thing. > 2) To save money, I want to host the admin interface on the same domain ( > www.mywebsite.com/admin). > 3) The admin interface requires login but never the less I do not want the > public to be even aware of the location of the admin interface. > 4) But there is a chance that someone might type in > www.mywebsite.com/admin by guessing and discover that there is an admin > user interface there. > 5) I dont want to use complicated IP blocking to block access to the admin > interface - I want to be able to login from any machine. I also dont want > to go down the expensive certificate route. > > In this case, the following will be useful - > > 1) A browser that has a simple interface from where I can map a key to a > url. When I make a request to my admin URL, it sends this key in the > header, get or post. > 2) A server which shows a 404 unless the key is present in the header, get > or post. > > This is fairly a simple feature and I feel that if browsers and servers > implement this, it could become popular. Could people please give me > thoughts on this, if there might be benefits to this, and if it would be > possible for apache http server to implement this? >