No FTP

[chowdary]

Hi,
How do i stop some one downlaod files through FTP.What i mean is if some got the
access to my webserver and trying to download the source code it should not allow them to download the files or atleast i should get an email who downloaded the stuff.

Any guidence is greatly appreciated

Thanks

Cheers
Ajay

[Anon]

If you use Apache, set a rewrite rule for files to be refused to be downloaded. Check Apache.org for the appropriate syntax

i.e.

RewriteRule ^{/path/to/dir/secret.dat$} http://www.yahoo.com

any time anybody tries to access that through a web-server then they'll get redirected to yahoo.com

For FTP access it might be a little different though, now that I think about it, how about putting the files in another folder a separate from the ftp root? so that they can't download it. or in UNIX change access permissions so that user and group and download it while the "nobody/everybody" group has no access.