How to run Wordpress admin on a different subdomain?

Question

I have the requirement of running the Wordpress admin over https. We use a cdn to deliver cached content for the site but the cdn cannot accept secure traffic (only one SSL cert

Answer 1

If you're using Apache to serve over SSL, look into mod_proxy.

Using it you can transparently redirect all requests from https://secure.mysite.com/blog/ to http://www.mysite.com/blog/.