Make JA Amazon S3 files available only to logged in users

gumibear

How do I make the files in JA Amazon S3 accessible only to logged in users. images successfully loading from Amazon S3. Only users logged in to my website should be able to access the files in Amazon cloud. Is it possible?

saguaros

gumibear

Hi,

May I know where you load those images on your site? (via module or article).

gumibear

Hello,

we are loading those images via article to /images folder.

Thanks

saguaros

gumibear
Hi,

S3 doesn't support that kind of feature, neither does Joomla also, it has option to set article to specific user group so that anyone want to view the details of article, they must login/register to view.

Regards

gumibear

Correct!
we set the article to specific user group so they must login/register to view.

Now we are using JA Amazon S3 to load our images from S3, and it's working good, the thing is that if a registered/login user viewing the article and copying the the image url from the article, looged-out from joomla opening a new browser and paste this image url in it, the images are loading without required login

meaning joomla use login to view the article images loading from S3 anything is working, copy/getting the article images url, and opening in new browser, images are loading, even thought the user loogout, and we would like to prevent our images (presented only to login/registered users) url from Leeching

hope it's more clear now

Thanks.

gumibear

please your help

saguaros

gumibear
Hi,

When you set an article to a special group, Joomla will hide the full view part of article (anyone must login to see) but it will not set the special permission to the file inside that view part. You can test with an image in your server and see the same.

Regards