Removing / Restricting Access to Sitecores Interface on Content Delivery Environments

Here are a few steps you can follow if you want to restrict access to Sitecore’s Interface on content delivery environments.

Open Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager
Expand your Content Delivery website
Click on the Sitecore folder
Double Click on Authentication in the middle content pane

In the Authentication Pane right click Anonymous Authentication and click Disable

Try visiting the Sitecore login page on the Content Delivery site and verify that you get an access denied exception

You might also want to copy the yourwebroot/sitecore/service folder into the webroot and update the paths in the web.config file for the various error pages.

Hope this helps.

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