Comments on: Protecting Files

By: Veena Prashanth

Veena Prashanth — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:31:16 +0000

As long as it’s in the same domain as dap, dap can protect content. Protect the full url in dap contentresponder section and add the following to .htaccess file in that folder (create .htaccess if it does not already exist).

#dap
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !dapclient.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/dap/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !(.*)(\.php|\.css|\.js|\.jpg|\.gif|\.png|\.txt)$
RewriteRule (.*) /dap/client/website/dapclient.php?dapref=/$1&plug=wp&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

By: Allan

Allan — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:30:17 +0000

Hello,

Can DAP protect downloads if the downloads are in a folder outside the public html folder (directly in the web root)?

Thanks.

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 14:18:19 +0000

Hi,

I tried to find everywhere in DAP Blog and Forum about possibility to protect and set time for download links, something like DLGuard. Is it possible to set link expiration in DAP?

By: Veena Prashanth

Veena Prashanth — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 18:38:37 +0000

>> Maybe the “My Links” page provided by DAP is the right one. Unfortunately I didn’t find it in the documentation. Could you please give me a link to it? < <

http://www.digitalaccesspass.com/doc/creating-member-affiliate-sections-within-wordpress/

By: Edit

Edit — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:34:22 +0000

Hi Veena,

thanks for your quick answer.

Please excuse my bad english. Maybe the word “gallery” was misleading. I didn’t want to have a gallery with thumbnails (even though WP-DownloadManager provides something like that). I just need a links page with all the downloads.

Maybe the “My Links” page provided by DAP is the right one. Unfortunately I didn’t find it in the documentation. Could you please give me a link to it?

Thanks.

By: Veena Prashanth

Veena Prashanth — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:14:41 +0000

To create a gallery, you have to hand-code the images (like thumbnails of PDF file, video, audio etc) to make them look pretty, and link them up to the protected files, and DAP will take care of protecting them in case they get passed around. DAP by itself will not give you a gallery-like download page for your files.

But DAP does already provide you with the “My Links” page, but that page just lists all of your content – does not have images and thumbnails, etc.

By: Edit

Edit — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:00:58 +0000

Sorry, I didn’t write my question clearly enough.

I’m not talking about protecting the files, I’m talking about how I can create a “download gallery” for my already by DAP protected files.

I don’t want to use any other download protector. Just want to know how I can provide a nice download page.

Maybe it’s easy but I’m not very versed with WP.

By: Ravi Jayagopal

Ravi Jayagopal — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:22:54 +0000

Please see further down on this same post – there’s another section called “Section 2: Protecting Files Outside of WordPress”.

If you are protecting files using DAP, you should not (and need not) try to use any other download protector, as DAP already takes care of that for you.

By: Edit

Edit — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:34:00 +0000

This section is about “Protecting Files Under WordPress”.

But I have one more question: How can I create something like a “download gallery” for my protected files?

I want to have a members page in WP where the members can download many files e.g. PDFs, Audios, Videos, etc.

I found a nice little WP plugin called “WP-DownloadManager” which does exactly what I want. But it seems that it doesn’t work together with DAP.

Thanks,
-Edit

By: Ravi Jayagopal

Ravi Jayagopal — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:54:25 +0000

Haha… sounds good. Yeah, have heard that before from a couple of “keen listeners”

That won’t be a problem any more – we’ve moved to a new house, in a completely new city (moved a few weeks ago from NY to San Diego, CA)