Limit Concurrent Connections with HTACCESS

[abirhasan]

have some bad people abusing the site

I tried this:


<IfModule mod_limitipconn.c>
     <Location /my_download_directory>
          MaxConnPerIP 3
     </Location>
</IfModule>

but the module is not available. is there something else available?

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abirhasan

[Sogo7]

On a shared server there are not many options...

Have you tried putting a CAPTCHA on the download page?

Tracking visitors with cookies, EverCookies or a Session code passed in the URL?

Where are the abusers coming from? can you block them by IP range ?

Is it one person using a scraper script or many humans?  take a look at the referer values & UserAgent strings  in the raw access logs this will tell you the kind of PC visiting your website.

Do you automatically change the download link locations using a random element every hour?

this stops people sharing  links and forces them to visit the website

Are you sure it is not a search engine from Google, Bing or Yahoo ? they operate from well known IP ranges and can be controlled by either your robots.txt file or by setting up your webmaster account with them to get a custom crawl rate.