Spatie Media Library some public some private

Serve through a route where authentication and authorization is required:

https://laravel.io/forum/04-23-2015-securing-filesimages

I use part of user id in file name:

class ImageController {

    public function displayImage() {

        $basedir = storage_path('app/upload');
        $imagedir = Request::input('dir');
        $image = Request::input('img');
        $string = $image;
        $str = (int) Cln::findId($string, "_", ".");

        If (Auth::id() != $str) {
          exit(0);
        }
        
        if (Auth::check()) {
            $file = $basedir . '/' . $imagedir . '/' . $image;
            return response()->file($file, array('Content-Type' => 'image/jpeg'));
        }

    }

But you can code something similar, above the logged in users id has to match.

image name ann_1457z1-55551234_127.jpg  (just example)

Logged in user id = 127

Match, will display.

But if user 147 is logged in, they cannot view the above image.

@jlrdw thanks but I am not sure you understand the issue. I am serving the files from digital ocean spaces, some need to be public for instance a photo gallery.... the images need to be public, but other like for a video player... the videos need to be private ... meaning not accessible by anyone and I would use a signed url for the videos. I will update my post to be more specific.