Securing images so that they are only visible on the local network

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Hi!

I’m interested in setting up a self hosted version of Rocketchat and I’m wondering if it’s suitable for my use case.

I’d like to use Rocketchat on a local network. However I’d like all media such as images to be blocked when users are not on the local network.

Is this possible?

Thanks!

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Hi!

You can accomplish that with some reverse-proxy “magic”.

Considering that all file uploads will live in urls like:
http://localhost:3000/file-upload/gvXo9w4PfvjKpNocr/someimage.jpg

you can force the reverse-proxy to only allow access to /file-upload/* from the IPs you want.

let me know if this helps :slight_smile: