Access control by region lets you can manage a blocklist or allowlist for playback regions for the current domain, providing better control over content distribution in specific areas.
How It Works
If you are configuring a blocklist, requests from the selected regions are banned.
If you are configuring an allowlist, only requests from the selected regions are allowed.
Must-Knows
After you complete the configuration of the blocklist and allowlist for the playback region, it takes approximately 10 minutes to take effect.
If you have enabled both the IP Blocklist/Allowlist Configuration and playback region management features, note that the IP blocklist/allowlist takes precedence over playback region management.
Prerequisites
You have activated CSS and logged in to the CSS console.
1. Select Domain Management on the left sidebar. Click the playback domain you want to configure region management for, or click Manage on the right side to enter the Domain Management page.
2. Under the Access control tab, find Access control by region.
3. Click
to enable access control by region and complete the following settings:
Configuration Item
Description
Authenticate By
Choose whether to configure an Allowlist or Blocklist.
An allowlist and blocklist cannot be effective at the same time.
If you configure an allowlist, access to live stream content will be allowed only for the regions added to the allowlist. Access will be denied for regions that are not added to the allowlist.
If you configure a blocklist, access to live stream content will be denied for the regions added to the blocklist. Access will be allowed for all regions that are not added to the blocklist.
Configuring Regions
You can view and expand regions under Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, South America, and Oceania and them to the list of selected regions.
You can also search for regions to find them more quickly.
4. Click Save to save the configuration (it takes a while for the configuration to take effect).
Modifying Access Control by Region
1. Select Domain Management on the left sidebar. Click the playback domain you want to modify the region management settings for, or click Manage on the right side to enter the Domain Management page.
2. Under the Access control tab, find Access control by region and click Edit.
3. Modify the configuration and click Save.
Disabling Access Control by Region
Follow the steps below to disable access control by region:
1. Select Domain Management on the left sidebar. Click the Playback Domain you want to disable access control by region for, or click Manage on the right side to enter the Domain Management page.
2. Under the Access control tab, find Access control by region. Click
