The Admin Panel

Updated Oct 27, 2026

The admin panel is the web page you use to manage RustProxy. Its sections are along the side (along the bottom on a phone):

• Overview: counts, anything that needs attention, and certificates expiring soon
• Sites: Hosts (your websites), Certificates and DNS credentials
• Hosting: public addresses for hosted computers, if you use them (see Hosting Public Addresses)
• Network: Port rules, Access lists, Firewall settings and Mobile passes
• System: users, API tokens, the default site, Auto-SSL, client certificates, the security event log (SIEM), Server settings and About

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How it's reached

By default the admin panel listens on port 8084 and can be reached from your network (e.g. http://your-server:8084/). That way a brand-new install is usable for the setup wizard without editing any files.

Reaching the page isn't the same as getting in: everyone still needs to sign in (see Users and Roles).

Narrowing down who can reach it

Go to Network, then Firewall settings, and list the Allowed addresses (one address or network per line). Only those can reach the admin panel at all; the server itself always can.

Before saving, RustProxy shows the firewall change. If the new list leaves out the address you're using right now, you'll see a red warning that you will lose access. Cancel and add your own address first.

Hiding the admin panel entirely

For a stricter setup you can take the admin panel off the network altogether, so it's reachable only from the server itself (for example through an SSH tunnel).

1. Go to Network, then Firewall settings.
2. Uncheck Expose the admin port through the firewall.
3. Click Save, and confirm after checking the firewall change.

Be careful with this one. Without another way onto the server (like SSH), you'd be locked out of the admin panel until you can get onto the server directly to turn it back on.

If a setting on this page is greyed out, it's set in the server's configuration file, which takes priority. The primary admin can change it, or move it back to this page, under System, then Server.

Is the firewall working?

Firewall settings shows the firewall's status: when it was last updated and whether that worked. If an update ever fails, the last rules that worked stay in place, and Overview lists it under "Needs attention."

Server settings

Everything that used to be set in the server's configuration file can be changed under System, then Server, by the primary admin (the account created in the setup wizard). Some changes apply after a restart, which the same page can do for you once its pre-flight check passes.

Your account

Created during the initial setup wizard (see Getting Started). Other people get their own accounts under System, then Users; see Users and Roles.