# Login Only - Does it actually stop all traffic access without login?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/login-only-does-it-actually-stop-all-traffic-access-without-login/390994
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 10, 2025, 10:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/login-only-does-it-actually-stop-all-traffic-access-without-login/390994 "2025-12-10T22:54:36Z")
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### Author: ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2025, 4:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/login-only-does-it-actually-stop-all-traffic-access-without-login/390994/2 "2025-12-12T16:44:25Z")

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> [@agemo](#):
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> hitting all kinds of discourse resources/paths, and potentially getting served a page/contents

Which paths specifically? anything that gets hit should redirect to login.

> [@agemo](#):
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> **Can anyone confirm if Login Only is a total block or not?**

Yes, login only means the only way you can access the site is by logging in. It’s still possible to get some bot traffic to the `/` or `/login` routes, because those need to be public to allow humans to log in, but it will be restricted to those routes.

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