{"id":286,"date":"2025-11-13T10:34:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T10:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/kb\/password-protecting-a-site-in-scout\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T10:35:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T10:35:33","slug":"password-protecting-a-site-in-scout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/password-protecting-a-site-in-scout\/","title":{"rendered":"Password protecting a site in Scout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you need to password protect one of your sites (e.g. a staging or development site) that&#8217;s hosted on our Scout Control Panel, simply follow these steps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Login to your Scout Control Panel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Navigate to <strong>Sites<\/strong> and click on the site (or the settings cog) you wish to protect<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select the Security tab<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Under <strong>Password protect<\/strong>, enter a username and password<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click <strong>Enable protection<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"985\" height=\"690\" src=\"https:\/\/kb.cloudabove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/11\/image-14.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-287\" style=\"width:554px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kb.cloudabove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/11\/image-14.png 985w, https:\/\/kb.cloudabove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/11\/image-14-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/kb.cloudabove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/11\/image-14-768x538.png 768w, https:\/\/kb.cloudabove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/11\/image-14-770x539.png 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 985px) 100vw, 985px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"banner-tip\">\ud83d\udc49 You can add your IP address to <strong>Trusted IPs<\/strong> to bypass the password protection (as well as all other security features in Scout)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you need to password protect one of your sites (e.g. a staging or development site) that&#8217;s hosted on our Scout Control Panel, simply follow these steps: Login to your Scout Control Panel Navigate to Sites and click on the site (or the settings cog) you wish to protect Select&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-control-panel","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}