I would like to block access to my discourse forum until it is ready but would like to have access to only few IP address so that our team can work on forum. I do know below options can be enable but I want my team to see forum like regular user until it is ready and work on content. settings->log…

@pfaffman thank you for the pointers. I fixed it :slight_smile: Here is solution in case someone needs it. ./launcher enter app from /var/discourse folder Go to '/etc/nginx/ folder and create file ‘whitelist-ip.conf’ add below lines in ‘whitelist-ip.conf’ file allow 192.168.1.1; deny all; open /…

If you use the setup wizard that launches after first install, you can select a private instance in one of the first steps. If you need to re-run the wizard you can do so at /wizard

If you really want to limit access by ip then you could use iptables or nginx rules.

[image] codinghorror: If you use the setup wizard that launches after first install, you can select a private instance in one of the first steps. If you need to re-run the wizard you can do so at /wizard This will not show posts to users I want, they need to login to see content. It is simila…

[image] sat: This will not show posts to users I want, they need to login to see content Easy. Set forum to private as Jeff suggests and then approve access to only your setup team. If you don’t approve others they will only see the login screen. You can set permissions to categories by group…

You don’t like the discourse solution, so it’s a sysadmin issue. You can Google stuff like “block ip with iptables” or ‘limit ip access nginx". You might try’ “ufw” instead of iptables. If you have a budget I might be able to help. My contact info is in my profile.

Another way to do it is to remove the dns A record for the forum and have your testers hard code the ip on their machines.

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) April 13, 2019, 5:08pm 9

Nice work!

And note that when you rebuild the container those changes will go away. This can be ether a bug or a feature!

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