1. On your Nanacast profile and preferences settings, add your Amazon s3 account credentials.
2. Set up your offer as a membership in Nanacast. We recommend setting up all offers as memberships in Nanacast (see membership overview video on How To page.)
3. On the Listing step when creating membership, check option to add download files or podcast.
4. On Pricing and Delivery step, check option to use file security.
5. Add all the files you want to protect, each one individually, as an episode to the membership. This is done in the URL to File Settings section of the episode, where you can enter the URL to your file.
Each episode has an episode file tag and in the additional tags there are numbered episode file tags that can be used in other episodes. See the documentation found in the "Broadcast/Episode Download Files FAQ" section of the edit episode page for detailed instructions on how to link to your files for download.
We recommending using the S3 file manager or by using a free s3 file manager plugin like S3fox for Firefox. Leave your ACL settings to private. Then just copy and paste each s3 file path into the URL to file box when creating an episode. NOTE: See below regarding file and folder name requirements.
As
long as you have added your s3 credentials to your profile and done the
other steps listed, our system will sense that the file is hosted on
s3 via the URL you input and our system will cloak the file with a
Nanacast cloaked URL which is locked down with a secret key on our side
and locked to the user's IP address and the file will be locked down
further with your secret keys from s3.
This
means that if someone copies a file and sends it to someone on another
internet connection (different IP address) or posts the link to a forum
etc it will not work. This security works the same in RSS feeds and
podcasts created with our system.
Amazon S3 Folder and File naming requirements:
Amazon has set some strict file name rules for
users of their Simple Storage Service which allow them to manage,
support and control millions of files for thousands of S3 users.
The
file naming policies mean you have to be very careful with how you name
your S3 folders and files (they call them buckets and items, but I'll
refer to them as folders and files).
These are the rules that you must follow when creating or uploading folders:
All folders created on Amazon S3 must be unique across the whole of Amazon Web Services (not just your account), and must:
- consist of only lowercase characters (a-z), numbers (0-9), dots (.), and dashes (-).
- NOT contain forward slashes (/), back slashes (\), or underscores (_).
- begin with a letter (a-z) or a number (0-9)
- be between 3 and 36 characters in length
- NOT be in the style of an IP address (192.168.1.1)
- NOT end with a dash (-)
- NOT contain dashes and dots next to each other (".-" or "-.")
If you have used a space, comma, exclamation mark, brackets, ampersand, or any other special character, you will have problems.
All file names created on Amazon S3 must use:
- letters
- numbers
- underscores
- dashes
- NO other punctuation, spaces, or other special characters.
If you see a "+" sign in your Amazon S3-hosted file path (example: http://bucketname.s3.amazonaws.com/this+is+my+file+name.swf), it's because you have left spaces in the file name, which will cause problems.
Even
though you may have been able to add file or folder names that do not follow those rules into AmazonS3
directly, their API does not support the use of folders and files with
those name structures, so their API will return an invalid path error to
us if it is used. This is not something that we can control from
Nanacast, because it is the rules that Amazon uses on their system.
We have also found the most success if all files are held in the same bucket/folder.
For hiding S3 source file locations for S3 Videos hosted on Nanacast:
6.
Use the episode file tag or additional episode file tags in your HTML
code for membership content pages in place of the source URL when
putting video embed code in a page. This will work with any player that
uses a standard embed where it calls the source video file. If you do
not have a video player that embeds videos using standard embed methods
calling the source video URL right in the HTML embed code, you should
consider:
http://transparentplayer.com
It’s
one of the most powerful video players on the net and it was designed
to support integration specifically for compatible use with Nanacast's
secure embedding.
But
again, you can use any player that provides direct embed calling the
source URL of the video in the HTML embed code. You will need to
remotely host your supporting files though (as with any swf video player
file) if you go that route.
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