# Binding to wowza engine manager to localhost only
**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/binding-to-wowza-engine-manager-to-localhost-only/94482
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [January 23, 2022, 3:25pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/binding-to-wowza-engine-manager-to-localhost-only/94482 "2022-01-23T15:25:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Piotr\_Wowzix](https://community.wowza.com/u/Piotr_Wowzix)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2022, 3:25pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/binding-to-wowza-engine-manager-to-localhost-only/94482/1 "2022-01-23T15:25:01Z")
My issue is about binding to wowza engine manager to localhost (I would to set nginx proxy),
I tried to add at /usr/local/WowzaStreamingEngine/manager/bin/startmgr.sh something somwthing like --httpListenAddress=127.0.0.1, but without results.
Documentations says nothing about my case, then how to do this?
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### Author:  [@Connessione](https://community.wowza.com/u/Connessione)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2022, 9:10pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/binding-to-wowza-engine-manager-to-localhost-only/94482/2 "2022-01-23T21:10:28Z")
Would you care to elaborate a little? What do you mean by binding to localhost here ?
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### Author:  [@Piotr\_Wowzix](https://community.wowza.com/u/Piotr_Wowzix)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2022, 7:09am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/binding-to-wowza-engine-manager-to-localhost-only/94482/3 "2022-01-24T07:09:37Z")
I would setup wowza manager to listen at 127.0.0.1, then I can access it only from localhost.
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### Author:  [@Connessione](https://community.wowza.com/u/Connessione)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2022, 7:47am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/binding-to-wowza-engine-manager-to-localhost-only/94482/4 "2022-01-24T07:47:39Z")
Well I think that localhost binding is by default you need not do anything extra for it. Additionally even if your manager is on a public IP just don’t open the manager port for inbound from the internet through firewall rule. There is no article on limiting to localhost but there is an article on [binding to specific port](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-modify-the-wowza-streaming-engine-manager-bind-port).
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### Author:  [@Piotr\_Wowzix](https://community.wowza.com/u/Piotr_Wowzix)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2022, 7:48am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/binding-to-wowza-engine-manager-to-localhost-only/94482/5 "2022-01-24T07:48:48Z")
Sure, but I would to hide it from whole network and bind for localhost only and create nginx proxy pass for it.