I apologize if this question has been asked many times. I searched extensively but could not find a thread which answered my question.

I have an active XOOPS community. I have a directory of content, including PDF and .Doc files, which needs to be easily accessible to members, but not in any way accessible to non-members. When logged in, I want the content to be freely available without having to enter another password, but when not logged in, I don't want someone to be able to access the content, even if they have its location bookmarked from a previous session.

What is the best way to do this? The .htaccess solutions I have found only make the content entirely unavailable or require another login, independent of the XOOPS authentication.

I appreciate whatever help anyone may provide. Thanks in advance.

I still need help with this. Does anyone have any advice?

This issue has indeed come up before and hasn't been solved yet.
I also have tried to solve the problem with htacces, but didn/t work. (jep it needs a separate password which can also be send to others)
Now I've solved it with an 'in between' solution.
I cloned the module Mylinks and have put there the files. Only members have acces to this module.
These files will open within the mylinks setting possibility of a frame. Users will only see the visitlink.
Nevertheless, smart user now that they can look into the sourcecode of the opened page and find the exact url.
If they past this is their browser it will open seperately and can send this link to anyother.
Well for these smart persons........they are lucky and is my bad.

If somebody has a way to solve this, I also would like to know.

Give a chance to
http://dev.xoops.org/modules/xfmod/project/?dms and
http://dev.xoops.org/modules/xfmod/project/?xplorer

As for DMS, is there somewhere a demo or somebody who is running this module to take a look?
I'd like to see it first before the need of installing.

Thanks

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