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Securing Site

by Alan Petersen
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I use DLGuard to protect my downloads but my new site I'm using the Butterfly Marketing Script so I wanted to make sure how to secure it. My product will be training videos. So I'll have one page with the links. Each video will be on it's own page where they can watch the video online (flv file) and they'll also have the option to download it. These videos are hosted on a seperate domain/hosting account than my site domain/hosting account.

Any tips on how I can protect it best? I know nothing is fool/theft proof but looking for tips. I'll add some codes to the .htaccess file to keep robots out since I don't want those pages indexed. What else could I do?

Thanks!
#securing #site
  • Profile picture of the author Steve Diamond
    That configuration is inherently insecure because you're using http to link to the videos on a separate site. In other words each video has a URL, and as soon as someone knows that URL they'll be able to get the video.

    The only safe way is to have the videos outside the public_html portion of your account. That way they can't have URLs. Then you need a script to give authorized people access.

    I'm not familiar enough with all the options in DLGuard, so I hope that Sam will jump in here with some details. But it may be possible to store the videos outside the public_html area on the second server, run DLGuard on the second server, and configure it so only authorized members from the first server can access them.

    I just don't know how. Sam?
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  • Profile picture of the author Alan Petersen
    I've use the membership component of DLG to protect a site and that is where I had audio files for another product. But since I'm using the Butterfly Marketing Script on this new site not sure if DLG and BFM mesh. I posted on Sam's DLG forum as well.

    Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author HomeBizNizz
    .htaccess hotlink protection (<--- Google this).
    Don't let people download direct from your files.

    Also enable gzip in .htaccess.
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