Case 1: The video file is stored on your web site

By default, DAP can only protect files that are stored on the same web site where DAP is installed.

So if you install DAP on YourSite.com , then your files must also be located on YourSite.com. DAP installed on YourSite.com cannot protect files (.mp4, .mp3, .html, .pdf, .doc) that are stored on AnotherSite.com.

So assuming the files are stored on the same site as DAP, you can (and should) protect both the actual video file, as well as the blog post or page in which the embed-code for your video is published, by adding both to a Product.

This gives you 2 levels of protection for your videos:

Level 1: The blog post or page containing the video player code, itself is accessible only by authorized members.
Level 2: When an authorized user gets legitimate access to the page where the video is published (because they’re a paying member, say), even if they try to do a view source and figure out the location of the video (eg., http://yoursite.com/videos/howtovideo1.mp4) , and pass it around by email to their friends (or post the link in an online forum), their friends still can’t view the video, because the video link itself is protected by DAP.

If you have some text that you want the casual visitor (and Google) to read, but wish to protect only the video, then you could turn Sneak-Peek on (in Setup > Config > Advanced), insert a WordPress more tag (<!–more–>) into your post just where you want the content to start being protected, and put the video player’s embed code after the more tag.

Case 2: Video file is stored on Amazon S3

The only 3rd-party-stored video files that DAP can protect at this time are videos (and other files) that are stored on Amazon S3. DAP cannot do this by itself, but uses a special WordPress plugin called S3MediaVault.com , which is a plugin we developed specifically to make Amazon S3 videos play in your WordPress blog posts/pages. So again you get 2 levels of protection for your videos…

Level 1: DAP protects the post/page where the special S3MV video player code is embedded
Level 2: The S3MediaVault plugin makes sure that even if someone tried to do a view source and figure out the actual link to your Amazon S3 video, they still won’t be able to view the video.

WARNING: Video stored on other 3rd party video sites

DAP cannot protect, say, videos that are embedded from other 3rd party web sites like YouTube or Hulu. Of course, DAP can always protect the blog post or page itself that contains the video, but once an authorized user gets valid access to that blog page, they can see that it is a YouTube video (say), and then pass that YouTube video link to their friends, in which case DAP cannot protect that external YouTube video link.

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!

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. ]]> http://www.digitalaccesspass.com/doc/what-is-a-product/feed/ 6