It's for distributing a shareware game.

I want a a link like http://www.mainwebsite.com/Shareware.zip which dynamically send the download to http://www.secondwebsite.com/dsdsf/Shareware.zip
or
http://www.cheapwebsite.com/Shareware.zip
or
...


The user still see http://www.mainwebsite.com/Shareware.zip , but he download on other servers.

thanks in advances.

Use .htaccess to redirect Shareware.zip to a PHP file which randomly selects one of your servers and starts the download.

Why not just use a php file to start with like everyone else?

Hi,

you cant do that with php if you want users to see only the www.mainwebsite.com address....

one really simple loadbalancing solution using mod_rewrite....


add to httpd.conf or .htaccess


RewriteEngine on
RewriteMap server rnd:/path/to/servers.txt
RewriteRule ^/download/(.+)$ http://${server:server}/download/$1 [P,L]


and servers.txt

server location1.com|location2.com|location3.com


Not tested but should be ok...


So what this does is redirect requests to download directory in mainsite to random servers download directory

CAUTION: DO NOT do not add the mainsite.com to servers.txt, it will cause an endless loop...


Hope this atleast points you to right direction :)


- Tero

thanks I will try that.

That mod_rewrite solution will just proxy the download file, which I don't think is what you want -- all requests will still pass all data through your server. I would use mod_rewrite combined with a PHP script to select a random URL and use the Location header to redirect the browser to it.