# Limit access to backoffice

**URL:** <https://forum.litium.com/t/limit-access-to-backoffice/661>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** litium-6\
**Created:** [March 5, 2019, 1:15pm UTC](https://forum.litium.com/t/limit-access-to-backoffice/661 "2019-03-05T13:15:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![peter\_moller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/919ad9/32.png) [@peter\_moller](https://forum.litium.com/u/peter_moller)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 1:15pm UTC](https://forum.litium.com/t/limit-access-to-backoffice/661/1 "2019-03-05T13:15:41Z")

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What options are available to limit access to [sitename.com/litium](http://sitename.com/litium)?  
We would like the site to return a 404 if the backoffice is accessed from anywhere except our office.

Thank you.  
/Peter

Litium version: _[6]_

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**Author:** ![MartinBrandt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@MartinBrandt](https://forum.litium.com/u/MartinBrandt)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 2:25pm UTC](https://forum.litium.com/t/limit-access-to-backoffice/661/2 "2019-03-05T14:25:46Z")

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For one of our older projects, we have set up an IP-block in IIS. So that only certain IP-addresses can access that, all others get 404. It works for this customer, as everyone that needs access to backoffice, work from an office with shared IP.

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**Author:** ![Spotonkastebo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.litium.com/spotonkastebo/32/717_2.png) [@Spotonkastebo](https://forum.litium.com/u/Spotonkastebo)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 3:12pm UTC](https://forum.litium.com/t/limit-access-to-backoffice/661/3 "2019-03-05T15:12:02Z")

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Firewall rule or iis url rewrite rule is usually used to solve this for us.

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**Author:** ![peter\_moller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/919ad9/32.png) [@peter\_moller](https://forum.litium.com/u/peter_moller)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2019, 8:33am UTC](https://forum.litium.com/t/limit-access-to-backoffice/661/4 "2019-03-06T08:33:38Z")

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Great! Thank you.
