Alister, 1 month ago

@ctietze The normal answer would by x-mod-sendfile, which is not specifically listed as working with Apache v2.4, but from a quick search has reports of working fine. There is also a similar system (module) for Nginx (https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/examples/x-accel/)

Another very useful alternative is using a separate CDN to serve the files with token authorisation - you add some parameters to the URL, and it will check and allow/deny the DL.
I had good results with both Google-Cloud-storage and BunnyCDN doing that.