Securing Files (Amazon s3)

Does anyone know how we can secure downloadable files on our site using S3?

I see an s3 plugin for Amember but no documentation on how to use it - and it says "

Video link lifetime" ​

The files on S3 I want to protect are .zip files.

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It sure would be helpful to have more substantial documentation. I've been chomping at the bit to use the S3 plugin, in addition to learning other features of Amember.

Alex, do you have any plans to creating more documentation?

With all the great screen capture software available, it would not be difficult to knock out a couple videos a week. By the end of a year, there would be over 100 videos which would be beneficial to your customers, and ultimately be a great selling point. And, it would like reduce the amount of questions to the help desk.

I have to admit, I've been very frustrated with the lack of version 4 documentation, despite how long it has been released for.

I agree. There is no use in developing a feature if nobody knows how to use it?

Is there any documentation yet for this plugin? I'm trying to get it working but aMember can't see any files in my S3 bucket. Do I need to set access permissions on the files or bucket itself somehow?

http://www.amember.com/p/video/#s3plugin

David

Thanks, I'd done everything in that video already. aMember connects to S3 ok (I think, at least it doesn't error) but isn't seeing any of the files in my S3 bucket, which I suspect is because of my bucket settings. I've tried tinkering with the access permissions/policies but with no success.

OK, I've done some hacking (I'm a PHP dev...) and the S3 class listBuckets() call was failing, with error RequestTimeTooSkewed.

S3 uses the current time to authenticate requests and the system clock on my web server was incorrect. Have corrected it and is working properly now.

I am having the same trouble with the files in my bucket not being shown in aMember. Can anyone provide a solution? How can I tell if this system clock is the issue on my server? Any help is much appreciated.

how do you protect content in S3 again?

you mentioned you'd get into that in another video, so just curious is there a way to protect all content on a per URL basis (so to limit the access to only mydomain.com requests?) or another way to show it only to amember or something?

Miso,

You set the ACL settings on the file (or an entire bucket) to only be accessible by the owner (this is handled within S3). Then aMember retrieves the file with the owner's credentials. The URL generated by aMember to fetch the file will expire in the number of minutes defined in the plugin configuration.

Same issue here...I can see my buckets, but the video files are not showing up. The server is controlled by GoDaddy, so not sure how I'd even have access to the system clock if it were wrong. What can I do?