How To Install mod_auth_token on Fedora 34

mod_auth_token is Token based URI access module for Apache

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mod_auth_token on Fedora 34.

What is `mod_auth_token`

mod_auth_token allows you to generate URIS for a determined time window, you can also limit them by IP. This is very useful to handle file downloads, as generated URIS can’t be hot-linked (after it expires), also it allows you to protect very large files that can’t be piped trough a script languages due to memory limitation.

We can use yum or dnf to install mod_auth_token on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mod_auth_token.

Install mod_auth_token on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install mod_auth_token using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mod_auth_token

Install mod_auth_token on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install mod_auth_token using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mod_auth_token

How To Uninstall mod_auth_token on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the mod_auth_token package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove mod_auth_token

mod_auth_token Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c/98df2593eb10063953b4e3bd30d4d028dcb99e
/usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_auth_token.so
/usr/share/doc/mod_auth_token
/usr/share/doc/mod_auth_token/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/mod_auth_token/README
/usr/share/licenses/mod_auth_token
/usr/share/licenses/mod_auth_token/AUTHORS
/usr/share/licenses/mod_auth_token/LICENSE

References

mod_auth_token website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mod_auth_token on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.