Title: video src="How_To_ Question" Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # video src="How_To_ Question" * [NeoRicalex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neoricalex/) * (@neoricalex) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/video-src-question/) * Hi all, * ***Background*** I have a Dedicated Server ( Ubuntu ) hosted at Godaddy, and i plan to sell Pay-per-View Videos. To do that, i already have the membership Plugin to manage the access side of the thing. I have searched today ( almost 8 hours ) for a ” Hack ” to prevent direct access to the videos i want to sell. I dont want to sell the download video, only the Watch Video. However, i dont want that someone who dont have subscrived my membership Video Plan got access to the video. ( Watch or Download ) * ***My Thoughts**** I think that what i need to do is upload my videos outside the webroot folder. Something like /home/myuser/my_video_file.mp4(etc…), and then with [ video ] shortcode make the hole thing work. * ***My Question*** How do i setup src of [ video ] ? src=”How_i_tell_WP_to_get_my_video_at_/ home/myuser/my_video_file” ? * And also, need i to give chown to apache or another user to get the video? * Thank you very much for your thoughts, and sorry about my english. Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) * [RossMitchell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rossmitchell/) * (@rossmitchell) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/video-src-question/#post-5128953) * Suggest that you have your videos outside your webroot, call these your masters. When someone subscribes, say the condition is that can view that video for say 7 days, (or 3 or 30 or whatever). You create a link with a random name to the master, say the link expires on 30th July 2014, then place this link in /view/ 2014/07/30 Once this date has passed, you can delete this directory and all the viewer’s links stop working. * You will have a supplementary database table of your products, use a plugin to manage this catalogue. * Thread Starter [NeoRicalex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neoricalex/) * (@neoricalex) * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/video-src-question/#post-5128999) * Thanks [@rossmitchell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rossmitchell/) nice idea, but the Membership Plan is for 1 Year, so, i think that youre idea is good but dont apply do my case. Is a good idea yes for a ” Video-on-Demand “. My plan is different because i gonna sell lets say 15 videos, but at the end of the first year who gonna purchase gonna see 40 videos and not 15, because i made 1 video by week. * I have one idea like yours but i dont know if exists a way to do that. My idea is to encript the url. * In other words, for my idea works, i need one plugin that pick all video files, lets say, myvideo.mp4, and encript to funtion_whatever(‘021023214whatever0120120’), then, at src i put src=”funtion_whatever(‘021023214whatever0120120’)” and all works. * If someone go to the code source to get the link, the only think he see is the funtion, or, the link encoded. * But, i dont know if exist a plugin to do that. I dont know how to search a plugin like that. And finally, i dont know if is one good idea. * Again, im gonna think better, and thanks for youre thought. Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) The topic ‘video src="How_To_ Question"’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 2 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [NeoRicalex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neoricalex/) * Last activity: [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/video-src-question/#post-5128999) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics