Hi, all.

I'm an amateur webmaster and have a little business where I sell customers certain downloadable files they get from my site. The directories are password-protected through htacess. (I only know a little about htaccess since the Dreamhost user panel does the work for me.)

I've seen simple things to add to the htaccess file where I can deny specific IP addresses or blocks, but I'd like to block any IP/user who reaches my defined GB download limit.

Dreamhost didn't have the info and their support told me to look around, I did...nothing for a while...and now I'm here. Any ideas, spelled out for a non-professional, would be much appreciated.

Cheers,

Robb

Hello,
What you'll need to do is confirm every time each IP makes a download and make a MySQL, or whatever PHP compatible database you use with the following fields-
ip_address
time
Simple, huh? After that you will need to add PHP that will access the database that you had used to work with and then see if they have reached the defined limit. You can kill the time column I put up there earlier if you don't want to reset the defined limit after a certain amount of time.
If you need someone to do this project for you I am currently working on a project but I will be available soon. PM me if you are interested.

Thanks. I guess that sounds simple...to you. Yeah, I'll PM you.

R