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Access rules let you control who can fetch content from your Tenbyte CDN distribution. Each rule scopes a set of policies (country, IP, referrer, and token authentication) to a path prefix or regex pattern, so different parts of your distribution can have different protections.

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How access rules work

  • A distribution can have multiple access rules.
  • Each rule targets a URL pattern (prefix or regex).
  • Within a rule, you can enable any combination of the four policies below.
  • Requests that match the pattern must satisfy every enabled policy on that rule.

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General Info

The General Info section defines the rule name, type, and matching pattern.
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General information

  • Rule Name — unique identifier for the rule.
  • Rule Type — how the match pattern is interpreted:
    1. Prefix — applies to URLs that begin with the pattern.
    2. Regex — applies to URLs matching the regular expression.
  • Match Pattern — the path or pattern the rule applies to.
Spaces are not allowed, the pattern cannot start with *, and it must start with /.

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Create an access rule

  1. Open CDN → Distributions → select your distribution.
  2. Go to Access Rules → Add Access Rules.
  3. Fill in Rule Name, Rule Type, and Match Pattern.
  4. Toggle on the policies you want to enforce and configure each.
  5. Click Create Access Rules.