wp-admin redirection and Apache DirectoryMatch rules

  • I would like to restrict access to my /wp-admin folder so that I can ONLY access it from within my home network via its private, internal ip:
    [http]://192.168.1.2/wordpress/wp-admin
    and anybody accessing it via its public ip gets blocked.

    My rules are:

    <DirectoryMatch /wordpress/wp-admin>
        Order Deny,Allow
        Deny from all
        Allow from 192.168.1.3
        Allow from 192.168.1.4
</DirectoryMatch>

    I have the same rule set for myphpadmin and it works as expected. But for wp-admin, wordpress automatically redirects the request to its public ip. So even when I type [http]://192.168.1.2/wordpress/wp-admin in my browser, wordpress automatically redirects to its public ip:
    [http]://my.public.ip.addr/wordpress/wp-login.php?redirect_to=https://192.168.1.2/wordpress/wp-admin/&reauth=1

    therefore the wp-admin directory is still inaccessible even from within my internal network. Is there a way to stop this redirection so I can access the wp-admin directly from its private ip?

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