How to restrict access to your PWA

Lock your PWA

Want your PWA open only to the people you choose, like your team while you build it, or the members of an internal app? Lock it with a password.

In Publish, PWA, Publish, scroll down to Password locked. This block shows once your PWA has been published.

Set the password

Switch on Activate the password restriction, and three fields appear.

First, write a short message: visitors will read it before they enter the password.

Then a password, shared by all your visitors. It shows in clear here, so make one up, never the password of an account.

The Validation button reads Enter: give it your own word, like Unlock.

Check the three fields, then Save.

A lock now shows next to Published. And there's nothing to publish: the top bar still reads Project updated, and your PWA is locked right away.

What visitors see

Anyone who opens your PWA now gets this page, with your message. Search engines get it too, so they can't read your PWA while it's locked.

Visitors type the password, and tap Unlock… and River Daily opens. Each browser is asked only once.

Change or remove the lock

To keep someone out later, type a new password and Save… every visitor is asked for the new one, even those who had the old password.

When your PWA is ready for everyone, switch Activate the password restriction off… and it opens to all your visitors at once.

A sign-in per reader

Would you rather give each reader their own sign-in? With the Authentication extension, go to Community, Public/Private: make your whole app, or only some sections, private, and readers sign in to open them.

With User groups, you can also reserve sections to chosen groups. Our Authentication and User groups videos, linked in the description, show you how.