# How to restrict a stream key in Wowza Streaming Engine

**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-restrict-a-stream-key-in-wowza-streaming-engine/54494
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [January 21, 2020, 2:49pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-restrict-a-stream-key-in-wowza-streaming-engine/54494 "2020-01-21T14:49:36Z")
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### Author: ![Hitesh\_Arora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hitesh\_Arora](https://community.wowza.com/u/Hitesh_Arora)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2020, 2:49pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-restrict-a-stream-key-in-wowza-streaming-engine/54494/1 "2020-01-21T14:49:36Z")

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how I can restrict a stream name like “StreamMy”

eg: rtmp://ip-address:port/StreamMy

also this stream name or stream key only valid for one time

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### Author: ![Amara\_Graham](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/amara_graham/32/381_2.png) [@Amara\_Graham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Amara_Graham)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2020, 3:14pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-restrict-a-stream-key-in-wowza-streaming-engine/54494/2 "2020-01-21T15:14:31Z")

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You will need to use the StreamNameAlias AddOn to limit the valid stream names - [https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-get-the-streamnamealias-addon](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-get-the-streamnamealias-addon)