I want to stop them !

Anon

Hello ..

My Bandwidth recently had been increasing and that costed me lot of money ..

My site is concerned with audios that people take the URLs and link to the RM files directly from their sites ..

I want to stop this .. by checking if the RM files ( Only the RM and the Mp3 files ) are requested through : http://www.mysite.com or not ..
If not I want the user to access my home page .. so he can browse it from the start of it .. not just directly to the files ..

I heared that can be done using Apache ! however I don't have any idea about that ..

Noting that :
I'm using Linux Red Hat and Mysql and PHP and Apache server.

Thanks

Anon

The idea is to have Apache check the HTTP_REFERER field for whatever file extensions you want (*.rm), and if it isn't the referer you want it to be then redirect them to whatever page you like.

That's one way, and I'm not sure how exactly it's done. Try searching the manual for "referer", and hopefully something will come up.

The other way is to use the method described in http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/tim20000526.php3

So if you have all your audio files in the /sound/ directory, then have Apache call a script in which you handle all the HTTP_REFERER checking.

Hope that hopes.

Anon

Hello ..

Yeah I know about the Apache method .. it's the one that I want exactly .. but my question was How can I do it ?

Can I find anyone who know the steps ?

Thanks

Anon

After looking through the Apache manual you have many ways of doing it, but here is what you'll need to read:

http://phpbuilder.com/columns/rasmus19990407.php3

Follow the links on the first page and examine the various apache manaul entries.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/sections.html

Mainly however you will probably want to use the <FilesMatch> directive to control the access of all files of a certain extension.

You should be able to piece it all together rather easily from there.

Anon

Be sure to read this too:
http://phpbuilder.com/columns/tim20000526.php3

For instance we'll say that all your media files are in the /media directory. You'd add this to apache:

<Location /media>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php3
</Location>

then create a file named "media" with something like:

<?php

if (!$HTTP_REFERER == "www.example.com")
{
header("Location: www.example.com");
}

Obviously you want a script more complex than that, and you must be careful of the fact that some browser's falsify the referer, and proxys often don't set it, and it's only ever present if someone clicked a link to your site.

If they have a program like Proxomitron they can just enter the referer they need to have, so do be mindful of that.

But that should thwart the majority of people trying to steal your bandwidth.