# How to hide selfhosted app search dashboard - production

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-hide-selfhosted-app-search-dashboard-production/224631>\
**Category:** Elastic Search\
**Tags:** elastic-app-search\
**Created:** [March 23, 2020, 9:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-hide-selfhosted-app-search-dashboard-production/224631 "2020-03-23T09:28:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![varunharidas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/varunharidas/32/63704_2.png) [@varunharidas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/varunharidas)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2020, 9:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-hide-selfhosted-app-search-dashboard-production/224631/1 "2020-03-23T09:28:49Z")

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**Noob alert.** 🐼

My app search installation is lying on foo.bar.com- making reqs from client-side, how can I hide the app search dashboard from the public.

I have proxy passed [foo.bar.com](http://foo.bar.com) using Nginx

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**Author:** ![varunharidas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/varunharidas/32/63704_2.png) [@varunharidas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/varunharidas)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2020, 3:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-hide-selfhosted-app-search-dashboard-production/224631/2 "2020-03-27T03:04:37Z")

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Hey anyone?

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**Author:** ![orhantoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c5a1d2/32.png) [@orhantoy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/orhantoy)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2020, 2:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-hide-selfhosted-app-search-dashboard-production/224631/3 "2020-03-27T14:24:20Z")

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Is it because there is no login to the dashboard?  
If that's the case, then you probably haven't enabled X-Pack Security. Read more [here](https://swiftype.com/documentation/app-search/self-managed/security).

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2020, 2:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-hide-selfhosted-app-search-dashboard-production/224631/4 "2020-04-24T14:24:21Z")

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