# Temporary URLs

Temporary URLs allow you to create time-limited Internet addresses that allow you to grant access to your Cloud Files account. Using Temporary URL, you may allow others to retrieve or place objects in your containers - regardless of whether they’re CDN-enabled.

## Set “temporary URL” metadata key

You must set this “secret” value on your account, where it can be used in a global state:

    $account = $service->getAccount();
    $account->setTempUrlSecret('my_secret');

    echo $account->getTempUrlSecret();

The string argument of `setTempUrlSecret()` is optional - if left out, the SDK will generate a random hashed secret for you.

Get the executable PHP script for this example:

- Specify a URL secret
- Generate random URL secret

## Create a temporary URL

Once you’ve set an account secret, you can create a temporary URL for your object. To allow GET access to your object for 1 minute:

    $object->getTemporaryUrl(60, 'GET');

To allow PUT access for 1 hour:

    $object->getTemporaryUrl(360, 'PUT');

Get the executable PHP script for this example

# Hosting HTML sites on CDN

Note

This feature is only available to Rackspace users.

To host a static (i.e. HTML) website on Cloud Files, you must follow these steps:

1. CDN-enable a container:

    $container = $service->getContainer('html_site');
    $container->enableCdn();

2. Upload all HTML content. You can use nested directory structures.

    $container->uploadObjects(array(
        array('name' => 'index.html', 'path' => 'index.html'),
        array('name' => 'contact.html', 'path' => 'contact.html'),
        array('name' => 'error.html', 'path' => 'error.html'),
        array('name' => 'styles.css', 'path' => 'styles.css'),
        array('name' => 'main.js', 'path' => 'main.js'),
    ));

3. Tell Cloud Files what to use for your default index page like this:

    $container->setStaticIndexPage('index.html');

4. (Optional) Tell Cloud Files which error page to use by default:

    $container->setStaticErrorPage('error.html');

Bear in mind that steps 3 & 4 do not upload content, but rather specify a reference to an existing page/CloudFiles object.