The music files that I use in my mp3 players on my blog are linked to a certain folder. What would be the best way to prevent people from looking in the source code and downloading the mp3s? Can I just put a chmod 751 on the folder? Or are there more/other steps to take?
stop people from accessing mp3 files on my server? (2 posts)
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cpkid2
Posted 1 year ago # -
richarduk
Posted 1 year ago #It was an interesting question, so I took a look around. I don't think preventing hotlinking using .htaccess would work, but I found the below. Basically, however, the answer seems to be that a determined user can't be stopped.
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Put the MP3s outside the web root and stream them with a PHP file that sends no cache headers. You can also check in here to make sure they have a valid PHP session so posting links directly to you PHP script won't work. Thats 95% of the leachers taken by removing direct URLs and remopving cacheing.
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