Title: JVM Protected Media
Author: Joris van Montfort
Published: <strong>Febrer 21, 2018</strong>
Last modified: Setembre 28, 2022

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# JVM Protected Media

 By [Joris van Montfort](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jorisvanmontfort/)

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## Description

Protect access to all your media files and implement your own custom file access
rules using a hook. Works for apache with mod rewrite or nginx with some custom 
configuration. No Multisite support. This plugin is more or less a development tool
for defining your own custom file access rules.

For nginx you will need to modify the config file as nginx does not handle .htacess
files. Add the following code:

    ```
    location ~ "^/wp-content/uploads/(.*)$" {
        rewrite ^/wp-content/uploads(/.*\.\w+)$ /index.php?jvm_protected_media_file=$1;
    }
    ```

### Hooks

Without a custom hook all file access will be disabled. The user will see the 404
page for all requested files. Adding a hook is needed to handle your own file access
rules. A simple example that could go into your functions.php:

    ```
    function my_file_access_rule($file_info) {
        // Implement your own logic here
        $userHasAccess = true;

        if($userHasAccess) {
            // Send the file output if users has access to the file
            JVM_Protected_Media::send_file_output($file_info['path']);
        }
    }

    add_action( 'jvm_protected_media_file', 'my_file_access_rule');
    ```

The jvm_protected_media_file action has one parameter with the following file information:

    ```
    Array
    (
        [id] => id_of_the_file
        [url] => full/url/to/your/file
        [path] => full/path/to/your/file
        [is_resized_image] => bool (true if the requested file is a image thumbnail or resized version of an image)
    )
    ```

### Actions

Available actions:

 * jvm_protected_media_loaded (fires as soon as the plugin is loaded)
 * jvm_protected_media_file (fires when a file is requested)

### Functions

To send the output of a file to you can call:

    ```
    JVM_Protected_Media::send_file_output($fullPathToFile)
    ```

## Installation

 1. Install the plugin from the Plugins or upload the plugin folder to the `/wp-content/
    plugins/` directory menu and then activate it. If your server does not meet the
    requirements the plugin will show a notification.
 2. Define your own access rules in your themes functions.php

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“JVM Protected Media” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Joris van Montfort ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jorisvanmontfort/)

[Translate “JVM Protected Media” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/jvm-protected-media)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jvm-protected-media/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/jvm-protected-media/),
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## Changelog

#### 1.0.6

Added nginx check and admin notice for nginx users.

#### 1.0.5

Tested up to 5.2.2 and added a comment for nginx usage.

#### 1.0.4

Better flushing of rewrite rules and plugin tested up to 5.0.3

#### 1.0.3

Fix for the .htaccess file being reset in some situations.

#### 1.0.2

Added a 24 hour cache time to the output. This effectivly trigger the 304 not modified
header if the file is indeed not modified.

#### 1.0.1

Bug fix: When requesting files that are not in the media library the plugin was 
not calling the jvm_protected_media_file action. Fixed this. In this case the action
is called but the file_id will remain empty.

#### 1.0.0

Initial release

#### Stable

1.0.3

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.6**
 *  Last updated **4 anys ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.4.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.0.12**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/jvm-protected-media/)
 * Tags
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   [protection](https://bal.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/protection/)
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## Contributors

 *   [ Joris van Montfort ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jorisvanmontfort/)

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