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On Friday 03 March 2006 02:24, A. Khattri wrote: |
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> I have a web server with a virthost that has huge amounts of traffic |
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> because everyone (and his grandmother) links to images in that site. |
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> I was wondering if there was a clever way to check the referrer page and |
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> deny requests for pages that are *not* on the site? |
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> Ive also installed mod_throttle too and would love to manage total |
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> bandwidth per virthost (i.e. set a total of say, 5Gb per month, and after |
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> that deny requests). |
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the mod_rewrite tip is a good one but only if you accept denying access |
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through hotlinking. |
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mod_throttle, mod_bw, mod_bwshare, mod_bandwidth, mod_cband may be worth some |
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investigation as they all (in one way or another) do bandwidth |
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limiting/accounting/throttling. all of them exist in portage. |
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Cheers, |
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Pedro João Lopes Venda |
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email: pjvenda at pjvenda org |
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http://www.pjvenda.org |
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