IP Whitelisting

With IP whitelisting you have the ability to control who can access to your Stacks site’s content by checking whether the patron/user's IP address falls within your listed range(s).

Stacks allows you to identify both single IP addresses as well as IP address ranges to authenticate patrons/users without the need to login with the traditional username and password. The flexibility of whitelisting allows you to:

• Define access to specific pages or content on your site that may be licensed, sensitive, or needs protection from general public access
• Set site-wide protection by allowing whitelisted IP addresses access to your Stacks site, when used with our site-wide password protection feature

If a patron/user tries to access the site, or the protected content on your site, from a device that is not within the IP whitelist range(s) they may see a couple of options:

1. Stacks login screen, here they can use their patron or staff login to access the site/content, if they have an active account
2. Have the option to self-register for a new Patron account, if self-registration is enabled

Configuring IP Whitelisting

1. From the Dashboard, click the System Configuration tile
2. Click the IP whitelist tile
   1. IP Address Whitelist
      1. IP Range 1 
         1. For a single IP address
            1. Enter the same IP address in the IP Start and IP End field
         2. For an IP address range 
            1. Enter the first IP address in the IP Start field and the last IP address of the range in the IP End field
         3. The Range Description, Customer Name, Email Domain, Entitlement Profile token and Customer ID fields are all optional fields in most scenarios to help you identify what the IP range(s) are for
      2. Repeat the steps above to add additional IP addresses or ranges in IP Range 2 through IP Range 8
         1. If more addresses or ranges are required, click the Add more button under the IP Range 8 section to add additional sets of these fields to repeat this process
   2. Click Save configuration at the bottom of the page once finished

Testing IP Whitelisting

To determine if an IP address has been properly whitelisted:

1. From the Dashboard, click the System Configuration tile
2. Click the IP whitelist tile
3. Scroll down and expand the IP Search section
   1. IP address to test, enter the IP address to test
   2. Click Test IP
      1. A message will appear indicating if the IP address is within the configured range(s)