On Dec 22, 2007 8:18 PM, Techman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I have read about a hundred pages on hotlinking today and I have been trying
> to implement an .htaccess file to prevent it, but so far nothing is working.
>
> I am using Slackware Linux 10 and Apache 1.3.36.
>
> What I want to do is stop people from directly downloading from my DL
> directory.
>
> i.e. www.mysite.com/download/myfile.avi
>
> If they type in the above I want an error page displayed.
>
> Currently I have an .htaccess file in the root directory of my site, as
> follows.
>
>
> RewriteEngine on
> RewriteOptions inherit
>
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}!^$
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.mysite.ca/.*$ [NC]
> RewriteRule .*.(avi|AVI|mpg|MPG|wmv|WMV|swf|SWF)$ - [F]
>
> This is very simplistic, but I just want to get it working, then I can add
> other options or whatever.
>
> Any help on what I am doing wrong is appreciated, or any other solutions to
> stop direct downloading.And what exactly is happening when you try that? What exactly do you type in your browser and what do you see in your browser, you access_log and your error_log. Finally, and most importantly, have you used the RewriteLog in httpd.conf to see what mod_rewrite is seeing. In general, mod_rewrite is easier to deal with in httpd.conf as well, if you can avoid using .htaccess. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
