ok i have a porn site and it's behind a age verification system and now i have problems with guys who download like 5-15 movies in same time and then the consume a lot of bandwith so server get's slow in some times

is there any way to limit the number of connections to a server from 1 ip address

i wwwas thinking to limit it to 2 per ip



thnx in advance

Well.. I've never done it but I may have to for my site and this is one way to do it...

Throw all your big files in a certain directory (which can have subdirs, etc).. say if your files are in /home/web you have a dir called /home/web/moviedownload

Set up a perl/php script to redirect to the file -- only allow redirection if the user isn't downloading like you say, 2 files at once already...

One way I can think of doing this is to have lynx do an ascii dump of http://www.yourhostname/server-status and then grep that according to the user's ip & the string moviedownload -- if the line count is equal to 2 then you know they've reached their limit already and you can deny them from getting another file

Hi,

I just saw above the server-status after the domain name, i have found it in the conf files before but dont know what it does?

I go to it afer the domain name and it says file not found.

Do you have to enable it somewhere? What does it do, can anyone show me an example of it?

Thanks,

I haven't experimented with this, but I think a more reliable way to limit the number of connections/host would be through an Apache module. I did a quick search and came up with two:

mod_conn
http://programmer.lib.sjtu.edu.cn/apache/modules.html

mod_limitipconn
http://dominia.org/djao/limitipconn.html

Originally posted by spock
mod_limitipconn
http://dominia.org/djao/limitipconn.html


Use this one -- the module version (the mod_perl version didn't work for me...)

This thing works nicely - you can limit by directory, MIME type, etc.. very nice.

Even gives you a log entry:

[Tue Mar 13 21:48:17 2001] [error] access to /music/3.mp3 failed for 127.0.0.1 , reason: Client exceeded connection limit.

:)

Thanks.

can someone tell me how to install modules on my raq4 ?
thnx
http://programmer.lib.sjtu.edu.cn/apache/modules.html
this one i would like to install