Comments on: Download counter in PHP using .htaccess

By: Kamen

Kamen — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 06:42:52 +0000

Well … actually one problem here is

Content-type: application/octet-stream

This is not working for my site, I would like to use the content-type that I entered in one of the Apache configuration files

and another small problem – the extension is not always 3 character (I removed that code completely)

By: Kamen

Kamen — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 06:27:43 +0000

Great! Thank you!
…
Excellent :)

By: Gaya

Gaya — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:14:54 +0000

Hey Rob,

Have you tried adding mp3 to the .htaccess and download.php file?

Good luck!

By: Rob Cifre

Rob Cifre — Sat, 23 May 2009 21:00:05 +0000

Hey guys… I got it working but I wanted to add mp3, so I can track podcasts. But for some reason it doesnt work any ideas why?

Works fine with zip files.

By: Gaya

Gaya — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:31:51 +0000

Thanks Adam. htaccess can be hard some times. So much possibilities, and a great chance to get a 500 error :(

By: Adam Winogrodzki

Adam Winogrodzki — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:22:27 +0000

well ! The script is great , but i think .htaccess is difficult to use .

By: Gaya

Gaya — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:55:59 +0000

First of all: thanks for all the comments!

@Tuan Anh
Maybe we interpret the title differently. I hope you still liked the article.

@david
Isn’t that a better to check user uploaded files?
Because I uploaded the files on my server, I am sure I gave them the right extension.
Or what did you mean?

By: david

david — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:07:24 +0000

There are better ways to check a file extension. http://us2.php.net/pathinfo is one. It would be easy to sneak a file past your check.

By: Tuan Anh

Tuan Anh — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:14:40 +0000

Using .htaccess of this way has only rewrite-effect, and all other works are done by PHP. So that, when I read the title, I wondered why htaccess file can be used to delivered files? This post is the same as “PHP download manager”.

By: bhunor

bhunor — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:12:01 +0000

THX!
I looking for long time this kind of script.Working very well!Great job!