How To Install mod_auth_token on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mod_auth_token
on Fedora 36.
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 36. 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 36 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
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 36 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
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 36
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 36
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/24
/usr/lib/.build-id/24/40bf3186118e0a4df3589d43d46c15a8bedb53
/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
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mod_auth_token
on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).