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Published on: 02/09/2023 | Updated on: 03/07/2023 | Reading Time: 2 minutes

Astra Boosters

Astra Dashboard Login URL

The main portal is located at https://my.getastra.com/login
If your website uses Wordpress, login to your Wordpress Admin area and locate the Astra Security link and click on it. You will be presented with a list of links to the Astra Portal without the need to enter another Username and Password.
If your website uses Opencart, login to your Wordpress Admin area and locate the Astra Security link and click on it. You will be presented with a list of links to the Astra Portal without the need to enter another Username and Password.

Astra Boosters allow you to quickly create firewall rules to allow or deny various actions such as payment processors, search engine bots and country based access.

Astra Boosters
Astra Boosters

Booster Recipes

Country-wise login access

Grant login access to users from only the countries that you select.

Astra | Country-wise Login Access Screen
Astra | Country-wise Login Access Screen

Block User Agents

Blocking specific user-agents is a good way to block unwantedusers/bots/tools to visit your site & consume bandwidth. By blocking their User Agents, you will stop any traffic that contains the specified text in the user agent field. If you want to block the user agent BadBot/1.0.2(+http://bad.bot) then you can enter bad.bot.

Astra | Block User Agent Screen
Astra | Block User Agent Screen

Block Referers

Blocking specific HTTP Referers is a good way to prevent Referer spam. It is like spamdexing (spamming aimed at search engines) which can affect your website rankings. If you want to block visitors coming from https://www.example.com then you can enter example.com below.

Astra | Block Referer Screen
Astra | Block Referer Screen

Trust Third-Party Services

Disable firewall for any third-party services that your website might be using, so that only the selected third-party services will have access to your website.

Astra | Trust Third Party Services Screen
Astra | Trust Third Party Services Screen

Create a Custom Booster

Scroll down to the Active Boosters section at the bottom of the screen and click Add Booster. You will be presented with the screen below to create your own custom rule(s).

Astra | Create a Custom Booster Screen
Astra | Create a Custom Booster Screen

If you need any assistance, please submit a ticket for Technical Support