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#15661 Hide Download URL

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Latest post by tampe125 on Monday, 08 April 2013 03:49 CDT

Monday, 08 April 2013 02:32 CDT

user74332
Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Have I searched the tickets before posting? Yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Joomla! version: (unknown) 2.5.9
PHP version: (unknown) 5.4
MySQL version: (unknown)
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Admin Tools version: (unknown) Latest

Description of my issue:

I place a file on my server at http ://www.domain.com/file/file.zip
And I want only paid users can download this file. So my question is, how to hide this file from paid user to prevent them from sharing this URL with other unpaid users.

Thanks & Regards
Dhileep,
HD Webplayer

Monday, 08 April 2013 03:49 CDT

tampe125
Hi webplayer,

this file is subject to change, ie it's an extension with updates and something like that?
If you want to allow only certain users to download that file, you should setup an Akeeba Release System + Akeeba Subscription environment.

Create a new Joomla user group and access level, create a new release in Akeeba Release and assign it as visible ony to that Access Level, then in Akeeba Subscrption create a new subscription that adds/remove the user from the user group when it starts/expires.

In this way, everything is managed automatically and, once setup, you won't have to bother again.
It's the same thing we're doing here with pro version :)

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

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