How to protect a folder outside web root ?

Hello,

I need to put my downloadable content outside web root.
Is it possible and how to ?

I have from my server “….vhosts/www/mydomain.com/httpdocs/” This is web root
But i need to put my protected content here : “…/vhosts/www/mydomain.com/pretectedfolder/”

I have a hack like this http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/using-other-folder-instead-of-s2member-files/

Hi Emmanuel,

This article should be helpful:

Knowledge Base » Protecting Non-WordPress Content with s2Member

Hi,
It’s not a document outside wordpress that I wish to protect.
I just want to modify the location of the security-enabled directory, and this location is outside the web root.

Hi Emmanuel,

Try it like this:

Sorry always the same message : The security-enabled files directory (/var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/mysecuritydirectory) does not exist.

Emmanuel,

I just ran a test on this and it appears to be functioning correctly. I believe that the problem here are the permissions of the folder. Can you try setting the permissions of the folder to 775?

Always the same message…

This is directory info :
user www-data
group www-data
chmod 775

My server run whith plesk

Emmanuel,

Can you try adding the following line to the end of your new directory?

.((stripos(PHP_OS, "win") === 0 && stripos($_SERVER["SERVER_SOFTWARE"], "apache") === false) ? "/app_data" : "")

Can you try adding the following line to the end of your new directory?

I don’t undestand what you mean by new directory ?
Can you explain a little more ;-)

Thank you

Instead of

Hello Bruce

well i try again but it don’t work. Sorry
I think i will try with a classic folder into the root.

Can you read my code, may be a mistake that i can’t see ;-)

<?php
add_filter('ws_plugin__s2member_files_dir', 'my_files_directory');
function my_files_directory() {
return ABSPATH.'/var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/myfolder/'.((stripos(PHP_OS, "win") === 0 && stripos($_SERVER["SERVER_SOFTWARE"], "apache") === false) ? "/app_data" : "");
}
?>

Try this:

<?php
add_filter('ws_plugin__s2member_files_dir', 'my_files_directory');
function my_files_directory() {
return ABSPATH.'../myfolder/'.((stripos(PHP_OS, "win") === 0 && stripos($_SERVER&#91;"SERVER_SOFTWARE"&#93;, "apache") === false) ? "/app_data" : "");
}
?>

Thanks for your help but it’s still don’t work.
I will try an another directory inside root.

Thank you

Hi Emmanuel,

I’m going to send this to our development team, so they can run some tests on this.

However I just want to bring up a point that users *cannot* access the /wp-content/plugins-s2member-files/ directory, as s2Member uses special .htaccess rules that make it impossible to access outside of s2Member’s processes./