Using Mod Rewrite for nice URLs in wp-admin

Sorry that last example should have been this:
https://mydomain/wp-login.php?action=logout to https://mydomain/logout/

I’m guessing this can’t be done then?

of course it can be done.

Could you point me in the right direction then?

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html

Im not going to do it for you — thats not “pointing you in the right direction”.

I got part way there after finding this site: https://lyceum.ibiblio.org/2006/05/11/mod_rewrite-help-needed/

I added the following below to the .htaccess file and it works for changing https://mydomain.com/wp-login to https://mydomain.com/login and changing https://mydomain.com/wp-admin to https://mydomain.com/dashboard. They worked as I wanted and changed the links everywhere in the backend.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^dashboard/? wp-admin/index.php?%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^login/? wp-login.php?%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

I added some more RewriteRules after the above for changing https://mydomain.com/wp-admin/profile.php to https://mydomain.com/profile and changing https://mydomain.com/wp-login?action=logout to https://mydomain.com/logout, but they didn’t seem to work the same way.

RewriteRule ^profile/? wp-admin/profile.php?%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^logout/? wp-login.php?action=logout?%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

I’m a little out of my depth here, but making slow progress. Do you know a good reference site (written for the layman) on how the QUERY_STRING works in mod_rewrite?

I think I’m getting close…