How to procted lots files?

[steelerdan]

Hi,

I'm building a site which had thousands of audio files available to the users; however I only want specific users to have access to certain files.

The problem is if I put them all into a directory, how can I protect all the files in there, but make some available at the same time.

I was thinking of given them all obscure file names and just linking to them, but is this the best way? Is there a .htaccess script I can use, that'll work

Cheers,
Dan

[onion2k]

Store them in a directory that the user has no access to, and then write a script that opens the file and prints the contents out to the user. Use headers to force the user to save the file rather than actually having it displayed in the browser window.

[jordy]

If you are not able to place them outside the scope of your webserver you can protect the filetype for direct approach with .htaccess.

This is what i use:

Options -Indexes
<Files ~ ".(inc|sql|ihtml|psd|bck)$">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Files>