how to do this? re: htaccess - GoFuckYourself.com

alan-l · 06-06-2006, 02:09 AM

So one of my servers is getting 23% of its traffic coming from Yahoo. That means around 5000 uniques a day. Great? Nope. Traffic comes from Yahoo Video, so it's 100% wasted traffic and free porn for surfers.

Now I came to this idea. AFAIK, you can't do a referrer based redirect via .htaccess redirecting to anything else than an image. This means no html. But what if you place a file parsing directive? Something like

Code:

RemoveHandler .mpg .wmv
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html

or whatever. Is it possible? If so, is it possible to parse files this way *ONLY* when coming from some specific referrer like Yahoo? If so, how?

Assuming this can't be done, do you know of any solution to this that don't imply to block Yahoo? I mean, keeping the traffic but instead of serving the videos, just send the surfer to a page?

gooddomains · 06-06-2006, 02:13 AM

good question, anyone has the answer for this one ?

alan-l · 06-06-2006, 02:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gooddomains

good question, anyone has the answer for this one ?

guess we need smokey to the rescue!

Violetta · 06-06-2006, 02:30 AM

somebody knows this for sure! Good luck! bump

darksoul · 06-06-2006, 02:32 AM

your idea that you can only redirect to an image is wrong
that applies only for hotlinked images.
In this case yahoo redirects to your site, to the video
and you can use that to redirect the traffic to a html page

06-06-2006, 02:09 AM	#1
alan-l Confirmed User Join Date: May 2003 Location: look behind you Posts: 2,477	how to do this? re: htaccess So one of my servers is getting 23% of its traffic coming from Yahoo. That means around 5000 uniques a day. Great? Nope. Traffic comes from Yahoo Video, so it's 100% wasted traffic and free porn for surfers. Now I came to this idea. AFAIK, you can't do a referrer based redirect via .htaccess redirecting to anything else than an image. This means no html. But what if you place a file parsing directive? Something like Code: RemoveHandler .mpg .wmv AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html or whatever. Is it possible? If so, is it possible to parse files this way ONLY when coming from some specific referrer like Yahoo? If so, how? Assuming this can't be done, do you know of any solution to this that don't imply to block Yahoo? I mean, keeping the traffic but instead of serving the videos, just send the surfer to a page?

06-06-2006, 02:30 AM	#4
Violetta Affiliate Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 28,735	somebody knows this for sure! Good luck! bump __________________ M&A Queen

06-06-2006, 02:32 AM	#5
darksoul Confirmed User Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: /root/ Posts: 4,997	your idea that you can only redirect to an image is wrong that applies only for hotlinked images. In this case yahoo redirects to your site, to the video and you can use that to redirect the traffic to a html page __________________ 1337 5y54\|)m1n: 157717888 BM-2cUBw4B2fgiYAfjkE7JvWaJMiUXD96n9tN Cambooth

06-06-2006, 02:13 AM	#2
gooddomains Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Netherlands Posts: 10,127	good question, anyone has the answer for this one ?