[ichad]

hi all,
Please help me.

I need to store files on one website and have then accessed from another domain/website. However I really don't want any other sites referring/linking to them.

Is there a way to setup an 'automatic' referral access code so that only a certain domain can access the files - otherwise you get an error.

My inspiration comes from the code you can place in a frame to make sure to opens in a frameset and I'm hoping there's something equalivent to solve this problem. I have access to the .htacess and .htpasswd files on my unix servers should that help.

I would really appricate any help,
cheers

[si_lance]

well if you don't want crawlers or search engines to link to your site you can use a robots.txt file explained here

or if you're using php, you can parse the $_SERVER['PHP_REFERER'], and decide to show the page or forward to a UA page.

[eggman]

Within your .htaccess file you can use mod_rewrite and mod_proxy to do your bidding, assuming they're present... and they probably are.

Many answers can be found on this page , but you will especially want to look at the section on URL-Restricted Proxy.

Basically, you create a text file that specified the domains that you want to allow to link to your content... and only http requests from those domains will be serviced.

[si_lance]

eggman's suggestion is much better. thanks for the apache lesson.