How to setup Private Download and use with CCK FileField

@kbk,

Thanks for creating this issue.

Let's leave this thread open for a period and see what others might have to contribute, but what you have so far looks great.

Thank you kbk!

This is just awesome! I've followed your instructions step by step and got it working on the first try. Actually, there's more info here than what I needed but it probably would do good to others.

A Documentation Page and a README.txt would be great, but is there a chance to include at least a link to this issue on the module's page while it gets there?

Thanks again!

That is exactly what I needed.
Thank you Bacteria Man for the module and thank you kbk for this detailed explanation !
I vote for 2) Create as separate page on d.o and link to it from the Resources section of the module homepage

@kbk,

Thanks again for putting this together.

If you don't mind, at your convenience, please create a documentation page and I will link to it from the project page.

Many thanks,
John (aka. Bacteria Man)

Some additions to the docs:

• If you use lighttpd as webserver the .htaccess-file won't do anything. But you can use mod_rewrite and a simple rewrite-rule to achieve the same functionality:
  1. Open the lighttpd-configuration-file (/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf on debian).
  2. Look for the server.modules-variable, usually at the top of the file.
  3. Make sure you have a line "mod_rewrite", uncommented. It should look similar to this:
     

     server.modules              = (
                 "mod_alias",
                 "mod_accesslog",
                 "mod_compress",
                 "mod_rewrite",
                 "mod_redirect",
     #           "mod_evhost",
     #           "mod_evasive"
     )

  4. Add the rewrite rule:

     url.rewrite-once = ( "^/sites/default/files/private/(.*)" => "/system/files/private/$1" )
     

     Note: This may only work if you have clean URLs enabled (I use mod_magnet for that).

  5. Save the file and restart the web-server.
• User pictures work with Private Download as well. You need to change the path to the pictures in /admin/user/settings to something below the private folder e.g. private/pictures.
  If you want to keep already existing user pictures you only need to manually
  1. move the files to the new directory,
  2. change the path in the picture-fields in the users-table (phpMyAdmin comes in handy) and
  3. clear the cache.
• I suggest changing the help-text below the file-field on the Private Download-admin-page to something like: "Subdirectory within the "%directory" directory where the private download files will be stored. Drupal will need to have write access to this directory. Do not include preceding or trailing slashes."

BTW: A really nice UX-enhancement for Lighty- (and maybe other non-Apache-) users would be to disable the whole .htaccess-form-element and -creation-code if the web-server is lighttpd and instead put a little help-text onto the admin-page, informing the admin that it is her/his responsibility to include the correct rewrite-rule.

followed the instructions to the letter, but no joy.

did it on 2 different sites but on both the same problem: Fout 310 (net::ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS): Er zijn te veel omleidingen.

Drupal 6.20
please advice, i realy need this
thx a lot

In .htaccess

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /system/files/private
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1 [L,R=301]

@kbk,

This is awesome--it looks great!

I have defined the documentation link on the project page.

Thanks to you and everyone else who contributed.

John

Using this module disallows anonymous users to access registered users data. But user1 can access user2's data. How to restrict that also?