jacker

I have videos stored in a folder that I want to password protect. Currently users log into my system to get to the videos, but technically there is nothing stopping someone from going straight to the video if they know the URL. They could find the URL out by logging in on someone's account and then viewing source. I need to prevent this. If I password protect the folder how do I grant myself access in my php file so I can display the videos for the users? Also is there a way to eliminate view source all together?

Thanks so much for the help!

Rick

Can you move the folder with the videos to a folder above you public_html folder? You would have to modify your php scripts, but your videos would be unreachable via a URL.

I do this with images in my photo gallery and it works great.

jacker

I could do that put I'm not sure exactly what I would need to do in my php scripts to access them then. Can you elaborate a little?

puckchaser

most likely, you have some path defined in your script to access the files. If you put them above the public_html folder you would have to reference the location like this.

/home/username/video

the path to your website would be

/home/username/public_html/

So an address like
http://www.mydomain.com/video

would be the same as

/home/username/public_html/video

If you put the video directory above public_html, then people couldnt browse to it, but you could call the directory from PHP.

Hope that helps and doesnt confuse....

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jacker

No that makes perfect sense. Can't believe I didn't think of that. I sitll want to password protect it, but that will be a quick fix for now.

GamingHybrid

Have you tried the cPanel feature? Or do you not use cPanel?

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jacker

I do use CPanel, but I have never used the fuction for password protecting directories. I just didn't know how off the top of my head and didn't mess with it to see how easy it was to use.