What does it do?¶

This extension ensures, that in specific folders for each file access it is checked first if a user is allowed to view a file before displaying the file/sending the file to the user's browser. Each file in these secure folders will be inaccessible at first (the folder is indeed secured) and permissions have to be granted to each file via File -> File List in your typo3 backend, in order for users to be able to access the files. This applies to all files in the secured folder as well as all processed files (e.g. smaller previews), which originate from files in the secured folder (the access permissions of the processed file's will always be the same as the original file's).

The functionality is included via a .htacces file using the (apache's) rewrite module, guaranteeing that no internal file can be accessed without the proper permissions and that the file's URL stays nice and human readable.

The extension uses the typo3 FAL database fields for the feuser permissions, which can be activated by installing the sysext filemetadata. So the extension relies solely on typo3 6.2 LTS and you do not have to install any 3rd party extension.

There is a hook integrated within the extension, enabling the usage in combination with RealURL (In the .htacces file a specific parameter is set therefore).