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Protecting Files

April 1st, 2009 — Access Control, File Resources, Protection FAQ, Setup

A) Protecting Files Within WordPress

The fastest way to protect files is to upload them to your wordpress blog when you are writing a new post. All such files will be stored in a folder called “wp-content/uploads/….”.

Alternatively, you could also upload files directly using FTP, to the “wp-content/uploads/” folder and DAP is configured right off-the-shelf to protect any file inside the “wp-content/uploads/” folder.

B) Protecting Regular Web Site Files Outside of WordPress

1. Go to the following directory within the “dap” folder on your desktop:

dap > client > website

2. Open the .htaccess file in this folder.

3. In your web site’s root folder (where you have your home page – index.php or index.html)…

i) if you already have an existing .htaccess file., then open it and COPY the text from Step 2 above and PASTE it at the very end of this file.

ii) If there is no .htaccess in your root folder, then simply copy the file from Step 2 to your web site’s root folder.

That’s it.

TESTING:
Now add the link to your non-wordpress file to DAP from the DAP Admin Control Panel.

Then, open a different browser (not different window – a totally different browser – like, if you’re logged in as DAP admin in FireFox, open IE)  and try to access your file directly and see if DAP redirects you to the login screen.

If not, take a deep breath – it’s NOT DAP :-)

It’s just that you missed something (or screwed something up ;-) .

Revisit the steps above, and if you still can’t figure it out, you might want to think about uploading the file to wordpress (see Section A above) .

But if you’d rather get this working, then just open a support ticket, and we’re standing by to help you :-)

That’s it!

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What is a Product?

June 19th, 2008 — Admin, Email Resources, File Resources, Products

In DAP, a “Product” is the same as what some would call as a “Membership Level“.

We call it a “Product” because you really are selling access to this “Product/Membership Level” as an actual product on your web site.

A Product is basically a collection of…

1. “Content” (blog posts/pages),

2. “Files” (.pdf, .mp3, .mp4, etc) and

3. “Emails” (autoresponder emails)

Think of a Product as one big bucket, into which you add some content, you add some files, you add some autoresponder emails, you set up how the content should “drip”, how the files should drip, how the “emails” should drip, specify if this is a “Recurring” product or a “One-Time” product, specify the price, is there a trial, etc.

Basically, this “Product” is what your members “Buy” access to (or you can also give them access on the backend, without them having to buy – for eg., to your JV partners or business associates).

Whatever content you want your members to have access to when they become a member, is what you would add to this product.

For example, if you are running a subscription site on “How To Train Dogs”, you could give your product the same name – “How to Train Dogs”. And to this product, you would add blog posts that you have created (like “Tools to buy”, “Dog Training 101″, “How to reward your dog”, etc).

You can set up Unlimited Products/Membership Levels in DAP. For instance, you can have 3 recurring membership levels (3 different products, called “Platinum Members”, “Silver Members” and “Gold Members”) – and you can add different content to each of these levels.

At the same time, you can have a 4th product – a one-time-sale product – called “Puppy Potty Training” where the buyer just gets access to 1 PDF report.

And you can have a 5th product – a one-time “Video” product – where the buyer gets access to a series of videos, all at the same time (no “dripping”).

A member can have access to one or more (unlimited) products at any given time.

Any time we say content, we mean WordPress blog posts, blog pages and regular files (PDF, zip, doc, mp3, mp4, swf, .jpg, etc).

Adding content/files means that as an admin, you can specify what content on your web site is part of this product, and you can go into each link and specify the access control for that file – like, is this content free or paid, when is it accessible to the user (on day #1, day #7, etc) – and for how long.

You can add content from your web site using the provided file browser within the “Manage Products” page, or you can also add using full URL’s (like http://www.YourSite.com/dogtraining/protect-this-post.html).

Adding emails means you can setup an email autoresponse to be a part of this Product, and that email can be configured to go out to the user after “X” number of days after she has joined, or on a specific date (in case your email is date- or time- sensitive.

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