hiding download exe and mp3 files

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Joined: Jan 2006

Is there a code to hide a download file, such a music, so other people cant link to those files ? rather than me having to change the source code weekly ?

such as: yoursite.com/coolsong.mp3
and
such as: yoursite.com/mp3player.exe

Dave Barnad
www.ranks1.com
Christian resource

Roo's picture

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Joined: Apr 1999

You could put them in a password protected directory.
With many hosts you can do this through your control panel.

If you can't you could use htaccess/htpassed

Roo

Greg K's picture

He has: 2,145 posts

Joined: Nov 2003

Or if you want people from your own site to be able to click on a link to them, but not allow others to post the same link, you can write a PHP program that checks the referer to make sure it came from your own site.

However you will want to let people know that this is in place in case they either by choice have referers disabled, or they run virus software that blocks referers.

-Greg

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