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#1

General / Shorter links

Last post by ColinM - 07.07.2025 11:36:08

Hi
I generally have two List All Categories menu items. One of the is hidden and does not appear inany menu. jD uses that one for internal purpose.  Then a second one is set up as a rgular menu item.

If I have a particular category that I want to access directly then I set up a single category menu item that links directly to that category. So it is a short link. It is NOT a sub link of List all categories menu item

Colin

#2

General / htaccess

Last post by ColinM - 06.07.2025 23:47:39

Hi
Did you know that you can set up htaccess protection in jDownloads.  This is setup in the security tab. Hotlinking protection  and block when no referrer are also available.
Colin

#3

General / Re: Check Download Area gives ...

Last post by webenhanced - 05.07.2025 04:55:00

I see that there has been some discussion, but no answers other than remove Admin Tools.

https://www.jdownloads.com/forum/index.php?topic=14100.0

#4

General / Check Download Area gives 403 ...

Last post by webenhanced - 05.07.2025 02:30:45

Seems that this is a known issue and so far I have been advised to disable Admin Tools. Unfortunately, this is not an option for the site I am installing jDownloads on, so if I cannot find the particular setting in Admin Tools (htaccess maker), then I'll have to use another download manager that is OK with Admin Tools.

Does anyone know what the particular setting is that causes jDownloads "Check Download Area" to 403?

I have not been able to find any logs to tell me what actually happened other than the apache server logs that say

Code Select Expand

GET /administrator/components/com_jdownloads/helpers/scan.php?key=################&mode=2&test=1 HTTP/1.0

Also if anyone can point me in the right direction to help determine how to make these two extensions play well together would be appreciated.

#5

General / Re: Joomla submenus for catego...

Last post by webenhanced - 05.07.2025 02:21:21

Looks like if you use the Joomla menu system to have sub categories with their own menu item, then the URL will just be longer.

Also found out during the conversation with Colin that jDownloads does not play well with Akeeba Admin Tools. I will make a separate post for the discussion about what Akeeba setting causes jDownloads to fail.

#6

General / Re: Not able to determine how ...

Last post by ColinM - 27.06.2025 10:18:55

Hi
Could you please explain more. What is a 4chan link? Also I am unfamiliar with 'Force Download start@

Colin

#7

General / Not able to determine how to r...

Last post by recipestay - 26.06.2025 10:20:48

I have a handful of 4chan links in my download list, and they worked perfectly the first time. I'd like to be able to restart the same downloads on another day once fresh postings have been made to those URLs. I tried "Force Download Start", but none of the additional files were grabbed. What to do?

Thank you.

#8

Suggestions - Feature Request / Re: Pre-process smart search r...

Last post by Tom68 - 25.06.2025 08:22:09

Colin

Thanks for the article, but I do not see how it is related to the missing feature reported above. I have no "htaccess protection" problem and I do not need to show multiple downloads in a single call. Maybe these are interesting news for other users.

As promised I have sent you the modified code of "plugins/content/jdownloads/jdownloads.php" together with some screenshots of my demo site. I hope, this helps to understand and fix the problem.

Regards
Tom

#9

Suggestions - Feature Request / Re: Pre-process smart search r...

Last post by ColinM - 24.06.2025 23:36:23

Tom
Thanks for update.  I have just been upating an article about seeting .htaccess protection
Are you aware that the Content Plugin is able to show multiple Downloads in a singlee call?
See article at
https://www.jdownloads.net/documentation?view=article&id=269&catid=30
Colin

#10

Suggestions - Feature Request / Re: Pre-process smart search r...

Last post by Tom68 - 24.06.2025 22:44:51

Colin
I am not an expert in the field of "Smart Search", but from an observer's point of view I see two general tasks addressed by Smart Search. The first is indexing of the contents. The second is displaying the results of a search. My problem is related to the second task.

I have now modified the file "plugins/content/jdownloads/jdownloads.php" as follows:

• I have added a public function onFinderResult before the function onContentPrepare
• I have added into both functions code to write some debug information into a log file so that I can tell what contents (article or search results) triggered what function
• In public function onFinderResult I have replaced the $result->description per regular expression "#{jd_file (.*?)==(.*?)}#s" and preg_replace_callback and logged the contents of $result->description before and after the replacement.

This is just a "quick and dirty" check of the purpose of the function "onFinderResult", but for a single search hit, it does work. After having introduced this code, the search result does no longer include {jd_file} tags but the contents they are pointing to.

Tomorrow, I will send you the modified code per email. It should be straightforward to find the modifications by running a diff.

Regards
Tom