Hey all,
I hope this isn't too off-topic for this list, but
I have a need to protect dynamically created
directories in an Apache environment and not sure
the best way to go about it.
It's yer basic LAMP environment, and what will
happen is that the client will be uploading a
musician's sound files to his/her own directory
and then allowing them to be downloaded by people
who pay for them.
So the directory for the artist, which will be one
level below the docroot, like
public_html/greatsinger/, will contain the
artist's music, and must be accessible by those
who have paid for the music, but should be
protected from any typed URL attempt to access the
music files directly.
I was wondering if it were possible to drop a
.htaccess file into each artist's directory that
would password protect it and then code the URLs
in the PHP script that allows access to the fines
to access the files with a user name and password,
but also hid this URL from display in the browser?
The files need to be under the document root to
allow a link to download them, right?
Any suggestions for common ways to solve this
would be appreciated.
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