Yes , well some leechers are linking my web from their sites and i like to know is tehre a way to stop them they are consuiming my bandwidht, help please!

Use Shawn's EDL (Enhanced Download) module. He has a free version (1.7) and a paid version with more options (2.1), well worth the 5 bucks. Either version you can turn on the option we're using here, where the person has to enter a displayed password before being able to download the file. That will stop the leechers. If sites are already linked directly to your files, I'd move them to an obscurely named directory as well to cut off those sites.

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also you can index your files, meaning what ever folder you have for your files *downloads* just open up a txt. pad an etc.. save as index.html then upload to your files *downloads* folder. If you have sub folders under the main, then upload the index to each folder. This will help from viewing the dir. of files an stop a direct download. Unless someone already has knowledge of your file paths an so on. It will help a bit, but really the Enhanced Downloads mod. is well worth purchasing.

If they are also leeching your images, you can do a couple of things to stop them. First, if it isn't a theme image, and is just an image on your site, rename some obscene image to the same name and directory as the image they are leeching. It will show up really bad on their server. It's always good for a laugh.

Second use anit-leeching in your .htaccess file. I use the one like this:

Just add this code to your root .htaccess file.

Code:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://yoursite.com [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.yoursite.com [NC] RewriteRule .*\.(gif|jpg|png)$ - [NC,F]

This will stop all of the images (gif, jpg, and png) on your site from being directly linked and displayed on another site.

Originally Posted by Grimx

also you can index your files, meaning what ever folder you have for your files *downloads* just open up a txt. pad an etc.. save as index.html then upload to your files *downloads* folder. If you have sub folders under the main, then upload the index to each folder. This will help from viewing the dir. of files an stop a direct download. Unless someone already has knowledge of your file paths an so on. It will help a bit, but really the Enhanced Downloads mod. is well worth purchasing.

Another way is to add:

Code:

Options All -Indexes

to your .htaccess file. This stops anyone from being able to view the contents of any directory.

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