How to setup (admin) access via port 443 only

[grifs71]

I am setting up a new CMS server on RHEL6 x86_64 and I am wanting to secure the administrative log-in to https only so I can use iptables to only allow certain ip ranges access to the server.

The old server has a 'custom-setup' in which it has 2 ip(s) one for the site domain & another ip for the remote admin php access via another ip address.

I am researching CMS, do I need to use another IP for the https:// access or will it use 1 ip?

Any help or guide on locking it down where the administrative options is not available via port 80 would be great.

thanks

[grifs71]

Is it possible to have the administrative login via https and not through port regular http port 80?


Any advice or how to would be great.

thanks

[calguy1000]

CMSMS currently does not support having a separate admin URL.

[grifs71]

So there is no way to re-direct to 443 with the admin, like in apache?

Not exactly like a separate URL but something to say when admin is typed in it would go to 443?

[grifs71]

Is there not a way to secure the administrative login with https ?

I am replacing a server with this and the existing server has 2 ip's, I understand this does not work with CMS. However is there a way to secure the administration to forward to 443?

Any ideas/help would be great.

Thanks