Is it possible to make part of a site on IIS only viewable from localhost?

Question

We\'ve got a webserver running IIS. We\'d like to run maybe a shared blog or something to keep track of information. Because of security issues, we\'d like for that part to

Answer 1

Should anyone wish to do this on the command line, this appears to work on IIS 7+

%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe set config "Default Web Site" -section:system.webServer/security/ipSecurity /+"[ipAddress='0',allowed='False']" /commit:apphost
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe set config "Default Web Site" -section:system.webServer/security/ipSecurity /+"[ipAddress='127.0.0.1',allowed='True']" /commit:apphost

Reference

I initially wanted to do this in web.config to ease distribution, and it looked like the following might work:

but as you need to unlock the function in the central IIS config anyway there was no advantage over making the change directly using the first commands.