Hide video URL

PHP
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Great, that means the set-up is good :smile_cat:

To summarize, there is the ā€œyour_video_folderā€ above the site root.
The contents of this folder can not be accessed directly from a browser.
A file that can be accessed from the browser can get the files and serve them to the browser.

Leaving the ā€œyour_video_folderā€ alone, you can now have the ā€œthe_new_test_fileā€ process POST, COOKIE, SESSION, GET values to control what file if any to serve.

To ā€œthe_new_test_fileā€ add some conditional tests and some ā€œelseā€ code so it looks like this

<?php
if ( ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] === "GET") 
     && ( isset($_GET['show_the_video']) ) 
     && ($_GET['show_the_video'] == "ABC123") ) {
$ctype= 'video/mp4';
header('Content-Type: ' . $ctype);
$file_path_name = "../your_video_folder/relax3.mp4";
$handle = fopen($file_path_name, "rb");
$contents = fread($handle, filesize($file_path_name));
fclose($handle);
echo $contents;
} else {
echo "<h1>I'm Sorry</h1>";
}
?>

Then create a new file with links to it eg.

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Videos Above Root Test</title>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1" />
<style type="text/css">
ul {
 list-style: none;
}
li {
 display: inline-block;
 margin: 0 1em;
}
</style>
<script type="application/javascript">
// script needed before the DOM is loaded here
</script>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Videos Above Root Test</h1>
<ul>
  <li>
    <a href="the_new_test_file.php?show_the_video=ABC123">Play Video</a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="the_new_test_file.php">No GET value</a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="the_new_test_file.php?show_the_video=BOGUS">Wrong GET value</a>
  </li>
</ul>
<script type="application/javascript">
// script that needs the DOM to be loaded here
</script>
</body>
</html>

Then go to the new file in your browser and try the links (need to use the back button to get back to it after clicking a link at this point)