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Version: v8

Security

Configure Edge Security (IP Addresses, Legitimate/Malicious Referrers, and Countries) for CDN.

Overview

This section describes three main actions:

  1. How to set up hotlinking protection.

  2. How to protect your site content from getting stole.

  3. How to stop other websites from increasing your bandwidth bills.

How to Use

The process is quite easy. You simply have to create a list of allowed referrers. Steps included:

  1. Go to CDN > Pullzones > Security.

  2. Configure your settings.

  3. Click on Save.

Configure the following parameters to set up the desired settings:

PARAMETERSACCEPTED VALUESDEFAULT
Blocked ReferrersHostnamesNone
Allowed ReferrersHostnamesNone
Blocked IP AddressesIP AddressesNone
Blocked CountriesCountry NameNone

Blocked Referrers

Specify a list of hostnames that will be blocked from accessing the pull zone.

Note: Use Allowed Referrers only for full hotlinking protection

Allowed Referrers

Specify a list of hostnames that will be allowed to access the pull zone content. If no hostname is, all requests will be allowed.

Blocked IP Addresses

Specify a list of IPs that will be blocked from accessing the pull zone.

Blocked Countries

Specify a list of countries whose traffic will be rejected on the DNS level and will not reach our servers at all.