There was a task to set up encryption in the links of paths to media files for placing movies on the site. We use nginx for this: rewrite /([a-zA-Z0-9_\-]+)/([0-9]+)/(.+)\.mp4$ /$3.mp4?md5=$1&time=$2; location / { secure_link $arg_md5,$arg_time; secure_link_md5 SECRET_