Restrict Plinth to be accessed locally only

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Actually, the “Webserver Home page” drop-down box lists

Apache Default
Freedombox service (Plinth)
Cockpit

…and then some of the apps you have installed. For instance, if you have a mail server and Roundcube, you also get “My Email Aliases” and “Roundcube” as options.

If this dropdown box were made into an editable GUI table, it would fix my problem, and expose some of the functionality I mentioned earlier. Like this:

Service	Published at	Who can see it
Apache Default (HTML)	www.example.com	allow all
Freedombox service (Plinth)	www.example.com/plinth	allow localhost only
Cockpit (server manager)	www.example.com/_cockpit	allow localhost only
My Email Aliases	www.example.com/email/aliases	allow all
Roundcube (webmail)	www.example.com/email	allow all

Or allow by hostname or IP address. More columns could be added for more functionality (suggestions?).

This would also communicate more clearly what the setting is, especially if the URLs in the second column were links. Some users currently overlook the “Webserver Home page” setting (it took me a search to find it):

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