[SOLVED] Hide url from users?

[L]

Hey

I am putting up streaming section on my site, but I don't want people to know the urls of the videos since they can just look them up in the source of the html. Is there anyway I can encrypt them or hide them so no one can see the url?

For example like on youtube.

 

Thank you!

~L

[sKunKbad]

I've seen it done using flash.

[L]

I need it done without flash though...would mod rewrite work?

 

I'm not sure how to do it though if possible...like it would rewrite anything like

multimedia/video/video1.flv to http://sitewithvideo.com/video/186404.flv

 

RewriteRule multimedia/(.*)/(.*)/  http://sitewithvideo.com/$1/$2&

[legohead6]

you could make anew page that has an include of the page you want, then you can varify by a get value or something that they are allowed to be there.. and then just chmod the directory all the vids are in to 751 and you will be good.

[L]

But that would still display the url to the video in my embed tag even if it is in an include

[legohead6]

oh, you want to hid it in the source?

[resago]

see if the referer variable is available to rewrite rules.

that would keep people from accessing your files except directly from your site.

 

rewrite (*.flv) $_REFERER/$1

 

or something similar

 

[L]

@resage;

so

rewrite (*.flv) $_REFERER/$1

will make it so all .flv can only be accessed through my main site?

 

@legohead6

Yah,

When I embed it it shows the whole url...so I need to find out how to encrypt it or hide it somehow.

[resago]

yeah, the reference is

%{HTTP_REFERER}

 

ReWriteRule ^/stuff/(*.flv) %{HTTP_REFERER}/videos/$1

 

 

 

in your links, you would use /stuff/whatever.flv

but you would put the files in /videos

 

this may need some tweaking.

 

there is probably an even better way by simply testing to see if referer is your site.

 

[L]

I'm still experimenting with htacces so this is what I put:

ReWriteRule /(*.flv) %{HTTP_REFERER}/multimedia/$1

/(flv) is to mark all the files on the video site

 

/refer/multimeda/ is where the request is coming from which is

http://infinitevortex.net/multimedia/video.php?flv=g14.flv

 

and when I put it in it gave me a 500 server error..help?

[Lumio]

I'm still experimenting with htacces so this is what I put:

ReWriteRule /(*.flv) %{HTTP_REFERER}/multimedia/$1

...

and when I put it in it gave me a 500 server error..help?

try

#If you didn't already turned on the RewriteEngine. Otherwise you can leave it out
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule /(.+\.flv) %{HTTP_REFERER}/multimedia/$1

[resago]

this on the otherhand "should" deny any request not from your domain for .flv files.

 

 

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond  %{HTTP_REFERER}  !yourdomain\.com/

RewriteRule  \.flv [NC,F]

 

 

[L]

ha, awesome...it worked!

And with multiple domains would it just be putting the rewrite two times?

RewriteCond  %{HTTP_REFERER}  !infinitevortex\.net/
RewriteCond  %{HTTP_REFERER}  !other\.net/

Thanks for everything!