How to handle user login with htpasswd

[dklbwf]

Hey Joomla Fam!

I have a project and not sure what is the best method or if there is a extension out there to make this easy. I have a client whom has monthly paying customers that login to view different videos for paying customers only. They are using a payment processor company called Epoch which handles all the payments and they use a htpasswd file which is updated instantly as users are added/pay. Is there a extension or some method I can use to protect the files for paying members only against this htpasswd members file? Using AllVideoShare as the video gallery extension.

Thanks for any help!

[AMurray]

I expect the best way would be to use Joomla's inbuilt user management functionality combined with a subscription or "paid content" component which gives subscribed members access to your protected content. Such a system will also then keep track of membership currency, and handle membership fee payments etc.

I'm not sure they utilise Epoch as a payment processing system though but the available extensions are at the links below - some are commercial/paid, some are free. Most probably have some form of demo to try them out on their vendor websites.

https://extensions.joomla.org/category/ ... downloads/
https://extensions.joomla.org/category/ ... criptions/.

If you changed over, I expect you'd first need to migrate payment data to another system, and also migrate user login information into Joomla itself. Whether these tasks are easy I couldn't say.

There's also the issue of the GDPR (if you are Europe-based or have EU customers) - I don't see using htaccess/htpasswd for User Data as easily administratable as Joomla's user system, and you can't take advantage of Joomla 3.9's Privacy plugins. Given the htpasswd file is generated (assumedly by Epoch) , I assume they have some way to be GDPR compliant, with the way their payment system works?

I don't know if this advice will help or hinder your efforts.