On 6/8/07, Allen Pulsifer <pulsifer3@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You would also have to change all links to the PDF's > from www.yoursite.com/file.pdf to ... Of you could setup www.yoursite.com/file.pdf to do a 301 or 302 redirect to the new location of the PDF file. Both mod_alias and mod_rewrite can do redirects. mod_rewrite can be more flexible but is much harder to use.
Thank you. Both your suggestions are definitely worth considering. However, and I probably should have said this in the first place, most of these PDFs are hidden behind a login*, while a few of them are even paid-for. (And to make it even more complicated, PDFs become free after a while, while their location stays the same.) Apache knows -via a whole bunch of mod_perl modules- whether the user is logged in and, if they are, whether they have paid us money, so I think moving the PDFs to a different sever -whether on the same machine or not- it would over-complicate things. And, in particular, wouldn't be the quick solution I'm looking for. * it is basically this that makes me believe that users who 'DownThemAll' are genuine users, rather than people trying to do a very simple DOS attack. Martijn. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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