Safari html5 video mp4 does not play in the htaccess folder,

Question

im works only on a private page with some videos, access to which is possible only through htaccess. all videos are encoded in html5, and the site works fine for every browser without an htaccess file.

after placing the htaccess file on my server, safari doesn't download mp4 video. in charles I get "401 authorization required".

I checked a few posts here on the same topic, but have not yet found a solution. if someone can press m in the right direction, go ahead!

some people solved this problem by adding mime types to the htaccess file (see below). didn't work for me ... any ideas?

htaccess in the root folder

AuthUserFile /rootpath/.htpasswd AuthGroupFile /dev/null AuthName "Password Protected Area" AuthType Basic AddType video/ogg .ogv AddType video/mp4 .mp4 AddType video/mp4 .mov AddType video/webm .webm <limit GET POST> require valid-user </limit> 

htacess in the video folder

 AddType video/ogg .ogv AddType video/mp4 .mp4 AddType video/mp4 .mov AddType video/webm .webm 

even tested it with some videos containing html5, so it can't be the wrong codec. keep in mind, it works fine without the htaccess file, so I assume my configuration is still wrong. but I have no idea where the error is ...

Answer 1

Try using below code

 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico AddType video/ogg .ogv AddType video/ogg .ogg AddType video/mp4 .mp4 AddType video/webm .webm AddType application/x-shockwave-flash swf 

Answer 2

after several hours I have not yet found a real solution ... but for my case, I used the following tag in my .htaccess file:

 <FilesMatch mp4> Satisfy any order allow,deny allow from all </FilesMatch> 

files are now available directly to the user without the htaccess password. this is actually not a solution, but for my case, everything is in order, as this is a private page.

even better ideas ?!