Setup Lan and Wan Access

  • Hi.

    I may have a unique problem and I’m not quite sure where to post it so I’ll try here.

    The situation is as this. We are a housing association and I’ve been tasked to upgrade to wordpress for us all. This has now been done. Design, content, optimization and all that is now complete.

    We, however, need to divide/split access to some pages and posts within a LAN and others to WAN. It may be easier to just give an example. (www.example.com as mentioned in the thread is only an example and not a valid url)

    Out of 10 pages, 3 of them may only be watched by people inside the housing Association (we have our own subnet) but the other 7 may be accessed by anyone inside or outside the LAN.

    So, for anyone in the world surfing to https://www.example.com they will be able to see 7 pages (or 10 pages but the content on the 3 restricted ones will not be available) but if anyone in the LAN or internal network goes to https://www.example.com they will be able to access/see 10 pages.

    If I set it up with user-based access all our users would have to logon and all worldly users too to be able to see a post. Tat is not possible as the administration would be horrendous.

    I hope I have explained it well enough as I am at a loss here.

    Thanks beforehadd for any help.

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  • Out of 10 pages, 3 of them may only be watched by people inside the housing Association (we have our own subnet) but the other 7 may be accessed by anyone inside or outside the LAN.

    Create an ACL (access control list) allowing page access based on IP address. You can do this using a WordPress plugin, on your webserver, or even in your network’s router/firewall (if the server is hosted within the network).

    If I set it up with user-based access all our users would have to logon and all worldly users too to be able to see a post.

    No, it doesn’t have to be “all private” OR “all public:” you can make only the 3 “restricted” pages PRIVATE (requiring your members to login to access), and leave everything else PUBLIC (no login required to access).

    Thread Starter infoatintomusic

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    George.

    Thank you kindly. I’ll look into the ACL thing. Appreciate it.

    We have 2000+ people coming ang going though, we will not be able to administer access via a login page.

    Thanks again.

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