User Authentication - Where Do I Go?

[Anon]

I am familiar with the user authentication, and i can protect html files, but I am wanting to protect some real media files. How can I set up user authentication so when it attempts to access a real media file, it asks for user name and password and if it is in mySQL database, it will proceed to load the real media file?

[kparker]

Are you using realserver? If so, it has its own security system.

[shmert]

I'm not sure about mysql, but there are a number of apache modules that offer support for authentication via LDAP. This is if you want to use http-based authentication.

[Anon]

I would just make the link point to a php script, then have that script grab the real file once the user has passed auth.

/real_media/download.php?file=song.rm

You then put all your real media files some where outside of your web root so no one can get to them without this script.