Is it possible to host cart and admin on different servers

[hubsun]

Hi,

Due to some security reasons we want to host only Admin module in different server. Is it possible?
If so what we need to do? also we require two licenses or one license?

Thanks in advance,

regards,
Sunil

[plugables]

I think its not possible currently.
May be some complicated advanced IIS settings can be used to manage it somehow. IIS gurus may have some solution. What they could probably do, if possible, is to make it look transparent to AbleCommerce, where the admin folder is located.

[mikek]

It is doable if you have server disks on a shared storage (SAN or iSCSI) attached to both servers and two separate AbleCommerce licenses
for the same domain. Such configuration however will be difficult to maintain and upgrade and adds additional complexity that may
cause site downtimes.

If you just need to protect the admin interface there are other ways to have the admin site protected in a single server configuration, like
setting up integrated windows authentication.