How do I redirect a movie request using .htaccess

[Tama]

Hi there

I have recently added quite a few megabytes of movies to my website. The movies are all sitting in the same directory.

How should I code .htaccess to make sure that people linking to my movies from outside of my domain will get redirected to my website (so I can restrict access if need be to high bandwidth movies.)

For example if someone clicks on:

http://www.mydomain.com/my-protected-video-directory/movie.mov

they are redirected to:

http://www.mydomain.com/movies.php

I've found a number of posts on this forum that come close to matching what I'm after but I don't have enough experience with htaccess to know I'm doing the right thing.

Cheers
Tama

I do my sums on fingers and thumbs.

 

[siberian]

Use mod_rewrite

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html

On this page search for 'Blocked Inline-Images' near the end. You can use this same technique for your movies.

 

[Tama]

I'm trying:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^[URL unfurl="true"]http://(www\.)?vorb.org.nz(/)?.*$[/URL]     [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(mov|avi|mpg|mpeg|wmv|mp4)$ [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.vorb.org.nz/modules.php?name=Video[/URL] [R,NC]

It blocks the link rather than redirecting it, which is disappointing. I'm guessing that once my local computer picks up the avi file type in the original URL it expects a movie type rather than a webpage. Or is this a problem with my code?

It also seems to allow people to enter the URL into their address bar/ media player - which I'd like to stop as well.

Use this link to test:

http://www.vorb.org.nz/downloads/videos/paulfloatnothing_v.avi

Any help/ suggestions etc. is much appreciated.

Cheers
Tama

I do my sums on fingers and thumbs.