Recently, I have had a requirement that besides the public assets, some Sitecore media items (e.g. pdf files, doc files, reports, etc.) must be protected and only allowed to access and download by authenticated users (using login feature) on the website. This requirement also required that there was a flexibility for CMS users when they…More
Category Archives: Sitecore Authentication
Secure Sitecore website with Basic Authentication using Global.asax
When it comes to websites generally or Sitecore individually, they should be protected and prevented from external access while they are being developed or under staging or UAT. There are some approaches to do this such as internal network restriction, whitelist IP limitation. In Sitecore, we can write custom code and inject to Sitecore pipeline…More
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