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Tips to Protect Your Downloads or Products
by: Radhika Venkata
1. Upload
robots.txt file in to your root directory
and include the folder name where you set
your downloads.
More
information on how to set robots.txt:
2. Set the
permission of the download folder to 711 OR
upload an index file to that folder. This
makes that folder web inaccessible.
For example
create a folder named 'test'. Usually by
default it will be chmoded to 755 or 777.
Put some files like test.htm, test1.htm.
Now you type
the URL of the folder - yourdomain.com/test/
What will you
see? You will see the folder /test with its
files in it. Now upload an index file or
chmod the folder to 711. Now access the URL.
You will see index file or permission denied
error.
3. Name the
download folders something like 'CDf54eS'.
Not like 'downloads' or 'products' etc.
4. If your
customer downloads your product once and
don't need or don't have to access to your
folder then you can set his access to expire
for certain days.
For this you
need a cgi script that controls your members
access based on days, ip address or number
of accesses. This script also protects your
thankyou.html pages and expires them after
certain time.
5. If you have
a membership site and you need to stop
password abuse or sharing you can use
scripts like:
6. Protect
your download links: Like if you keep ...domain.com/downloads/product.zip,
everybody knows the download URL. You can
use cgi scripts that discloses the download
7. If you use
If you are selling ebooks, you can use
password protection to your ebooks. Once
your ebook is protected, after your buyer
downloads it, you can send it to him to open
the ebook.
Some ebook
compilers with this password protection
features:
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