Hi all. I occasionally host some large (~50 mb) files which recieve many hits and I was wondering if there was some sort of script that would create a "downloading page" rather than just going to the file directly...i.e.

http://www.qubefactor.com/example.zip would bring the user to a website where they would see a page that had an advertisment for me as well as a link to download the actual file.

Thanks!

Ian

I can't remember offhand, but I used to use Schlabo's(?) Scripts a few years back... Many, many years back...

I'd sure theres something better nowadays on HotScripts :)

What I would recommend doing, is writing a little PHP script that will display your ads, then go into the download.

The only thing with this is, you would have something like
http://www.qubefactor.com/download.php?file=example.zip

I made a simple script that does that. It works like so:
http://www.qubefactor.com/r.php?i=1

Basically it re-directs the visitor to that download. It is useful if you want to change the download directory, and also, no one can really find the direct link to that download.

You can download it here:
http://quate.xedhost.com/project.php
Click on the "Link-Count" project, and click download.

The reason I do not have a download link is because my host has unstable MySQL, so pages that use MySQL can't load, or return an error. Thats what happening right now. It switches from time to time, so I'd expect it to be back normal again in an hour (and then switch to not working again).

Hope this help:

Turn on the RewriteEngine and make use of RewriteRule to route your download file to a script. In your script display your advertisment and use javascript to open another session to download the file.

Thanks for the help. I found schlabo's script to do the job just fine.

Glad I could be of service to you :)