Add private pages to your Webflow pages
Protect your page to logged in users only.
In this tutorial, we are going to guide you on how to protect your Webflow page to only be accessible by logged in users.
You can do so by adding a simple code on the head section of your Webflow custom code. This can be applied to any other website builders with custom code functionality.
Here’s what you’ll need:
- Cotter login form
- Private pages: pages you require users to login to access
Step 1: Add Cotter to your pages
When you have your private pages ready, you can simply copy and paste the following code block to the <head> section of your custom code:
<script src="https://unpkg.com/cotter@0.3.31/dist/cotter.loader.js"
type="text/javascript"
data-cotter-api-key-id="<your-api-key-id>">
</script>You should have something like this on Webflow:
Please note that you will have a different value in data-cotter-api-key-id and maybe a different page name.
Step 2: Configure your site on Cotter’s dashboard
Head to Cotter’s developer dashboard then go to Projects > Protected Pages. Then set it to however you’d like. You might have different slugs. Here’s an example configuration:
A brief explanation on the configuration above:
- This configuration sets everything that starts with
/blogand/profile(such ascotterapp.webflow.io/blog/profile) to be protected. It means visitors that are not logged in will be redirected to/login-page. - Please note that this protection does not mean that your data in
/blogor/privatepath will be protected, so it is not recommended to store sensitive content within these paths.
That’s it 🎉
You have successfully added a layer of protection on your content! You can save your changes and see that your /blog and /profile pages are protected by Cotter.
