file access permissions only from chrono page

teldrive 06 Oct, 2021

Hi everyone
a simple question but may be not easy to solve
i have lots of links to files into my chrono list of type http://myweb.com/2021/file.pdf
how can I restrict access to them in order only they can be accesed from web page(that of course has user restrictions)

Gr

GreyHead 06 Oct, 2021

Hi teldrive,

I'm sure that this has been answered before but don't have time to hunt it down right now.

If I recall correctly the answer is to save the files in a folder above the domain root so that they are not directly available by URL, then create a form page that will download the file - or email it if you prefer. That form page can be limited to the appropriate restricted users.

Bob

teldrive 06 Oct, 2021

Answer

Thanks Bob, yes it works, just to share my code with everyone , in link to file

 https://myweb/trabajos/?option=com_chronoforms6&chronoform=descarga&file=file1.pdf

and in CF a form called "descarga", the key of this method is that /trabajos/ is a private folder so only registered user can acces to it and files are in the /doc/ folder , same place that /httpdocs/ folder, where only php program can access, I understand thtat this is the most secure method

if($this->data['file']){
$path_root=JPATH_SITE;
$parts = explode('/', $path_root);
array_pop($parts);
$this->data['path2'] = implode('/', $parts).'/docs/'.$this->data['file'];
}

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