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title: Configure Anywhere to Allow Activate Inbound APIs
slug: gbkV-configure-anywhere-to-allow-activate-inbound-apis
createdAt: 2025-07-28T01:14:32.007Z
---

## Introduction

Activate Anywhere can be configured to route API requests through to Activate. This is great for opening up Activate APIs externally for cloud or other systems to consume. By default this routing is disabled, but can be easily enabled using policy configuration.

## Configuration

1. Browse in Activate Studio to Resources/Configuration/External Web
2. Open RemoteAccess parameter
3. Set api/policy/enable to "true"
4. Set policy/match/url to the relative URL of the API, e.g. Custom/MyNewAPI or Custom/\* to allow all Custom APIs
5. Set policy/match/ipAddress to the allowed source IPs, or use \* to allow all.
6. Restart Activate and Anywhere app pools for configuration to take effect.



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To setup multiple policies copy and paste the default policy node under the api node.

## Other Notes

- When Anywhere checks policy against incoming requests the check is case sensitive, so Custom/MyAPI in the policy will not allow through customer/myapi, please ensure the consumer of the API is aware of this feature.