protecting a folder/content

[Ice]

I have a pay site where the html is on one server and the movies and pics are on another server...(different ip's)

How do I protect the movies and pics folder so only paying members will get in? Right now anybody can hot link to the files.

[AdultNex]

Prevent hotlinking:

http://hahahahahahahahahahakit.com/h...access10.shtml

Htaccess password protection:

http://hahahahahahahahahahakit.com/h...taccess3.shtml

I would recommend going with a 3rd party login/pass script tho.

[AdultNex]

Oops, replace the hahahhaahaah with ja\/ascript

[NineNine]

Originally posted by AdultNex
Prevent hotlinking:

http://hahahahahahahahahahakit.com/h...access10.shtml

Htaccess password protection:

http://hahahahahahahahahahakit.com/h...taccess3.shtml

I would recommend going with a 3rd party login/pass script tho.

Assuming you're running Apache...

[Ice]

Yes Im running apache but still can't figure out how to only give access to the content folder to people that come from the members area on the other ip.

[directfiesta]

use the module re_write in Apache. When somebody wants to see your movies on server 2, it will check that he comes from a precise url from server one... Server one protected as usual with htaccess

[Ice]

Originally posted by directfiesta
use the module re_write in Apache. When somebody wants to see your movies on server 2, it will check that he comes from a precise url from server one... Server one protected as usual with htaccess

Thanks "dude" I will try that

[NineNine]

This is the last thing that IIS needs to make it a decent webserver. To do this right now, you gotta write an ISAPI filter. Ugh.

[gxnpt]

If you use a short PHP script that provides just the image header and data you can then use that script as the image source (src="xxx.php") and they will not be able to find the actual images.
An HTTP_REFERER check in the PHP code should also be used.

[foe]

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