Forbid Guests to Download Certain Files

[dunlix]

@aleksei is this a built in forum feature or a plugin you’ve made?

[Aleksei]

If you're asking about the possibility to forbid certain file types for guest download, then it's a forum feature. It can be found in Uploads settings of the admin control panel.

[PitaJ]

Can you take a bigger screenshot of the ACP settings page including surrounding settings? I thought it was a whitelist, not a blacklist.

[gotwf]

@aleksei Iirc, there are separate knobs which make certain file extensions private while also outright forbidding others. Which are you tweaking in your screenshot?

[baris]

I think the settings to prevent guests from download files doesn't do anything if the files are served by nginx.

[Aleksei]

@gotwf said in Forbid Guests to Download Certain Files:

@aleksei Iirc, there are separate knobs which make certain file extensions private while also outright forbidding others. Which are you tweaking in your screenshot?

I tried all possible variants.

@baris, and how I can check it? If files are served is it possible to switch the setting via the control panel somewhere? And is it a good decision? Because I heard that serving files via NodeJS is slower than Nginx.

[baris]

If you look at the response headers in the network tab for the image it would show nginx or nodebb.

[Aleksei]

Yes, it appeared to be served by Nginx.

[Aleksei]

How can I change the files serving for NodeJS to handle it instead of Nginx? I couldn't find this option in ACP.

[PitaJ]

You have to remove our comment out the assets location block. It may be possible to just exclude uploads, but you'll need to research the nginx syntax for that yourself.