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jzlcdh
 Post subject: How to secure pdf files?
PostPosted: Fri May 27, 2011 12:45 pm 
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I am having performance problems cutting and pasting (a spreadsheet from Open Office) into new articles so I have asked a question in the performance forum.

However my uploads to media manager are fine so I am wondering whether there is any way I can use that as an alternative. For example I could export my speadsheets as a pdf files and upload them into media manager.

But if I then link to a pdf from a secured article could not someone else guess the link to see the pdf file?

I do not suppose there is any way to move a file from media manager into the actual content of an article not just as a link?

Or is there any way I could apply ACL to a file in the media manager?

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RussW
PostPosted: Fri May 27, 2011 10:07 pm 
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Look in to one of the file managers or "attachments" extensions, you can set ACL's on files, store them out of the accessible web root, but then use the plugin to link them in to articles without giving away the actual file location.

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PostPosted: Sat May 28, 2011 8:01 am 
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Hmm jsmallfib http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/core-enhancements/file-management/8570 looks a possibility but I would have to get one of my mates to translate it into Turkish.
And I would be concerned at the lack of support.

If anyone else has used something like this with support and utf8 please let me know.

Thanks for the advice.
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rhoffma2
PostPosted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 5:01 pm 
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Can anyone (RussW perhaps) suggest a preferred extension for building a private area outside of public_html for files only certain users can access? I've also considered 'password protecting' a subdirectory of public_html, but don't want to require users login twice (once to Joomla site, again with web providers secure directory username/password). Is an extension/plug-in available that would allow Joomla to hide the password protected directory authentication step (having its own ID to manage this)?
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Per Yngve Berg
PostPosted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 7:27 pm 
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http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/directory-a-documentation/downloads
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rhoffma2
PostPosted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 3:57 am 
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Thanks for this list. It wasn't obvious which of these could allow me to work with files outside of public_html. Can you share which of these you use?
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Per Yngve Berg
PostPosted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 5:12 pm 
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I have used Phoca Download. It has user access management.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 3:33 am 
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Thanks. I'll give this a try. So you use it to give Joomla logged in users access to files outside of public_html, and the extension manages the delivery of them to the users via secure pages/articles (that only logged in users can access)?
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Per Yngve Berg
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I have not tried to move them out of public_html. The default is in the images folder, but it's configurable. The user is not given the location of the file. You can control both upload and download of files in the component. Several plugins and modules is also available.
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