Thread: Need Help with PHP Statement

I want to make it on my proxy top site, ProxLists.com, so that if you click any of the links from a site besides ProxLists, it will redirect to the home page instead of to the appropriate proxy. The code I am using is as follows:

Code:

$referer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; 

if  ($referer != "http://www.proxlists.com") {

header('Location: http://www.proxlists.com');

} else {

$db->query("UPDATE {$db_tp}proxy SET hits = hits + 1 WHERE id = $id");
header('Location: '.$row[0]);

}

It says that if the Refferer is not ProxLists, it will redirect to the home page. Otherwise, it will add a hit to the count and then redirect to the right proxy.

It does prevent hotlinking, however, if you click on a link in the list, it redirects to the home page as well! Can anybody help?

Instead of using PHP, I am doing the same thing using Apache's mod_rewrite:

Code:

# Prevent hotlinking to hits.php
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?tech-faq.com(/)?.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\hits.php$ http://www.tech-faq.com/proxy.shtml [R,NC]

OK I just put that into the .htaccess and put the PHP back to normal. It's not working, I can still click the link from outside webpages.

Are you sure that your .htaccess file is being read by Apache?

Did you change tech-faq.com to your own site name?

How are you testing this functionality?

1) Yes I am positive, since I am using .htaccess for other redirections.

2) Yes I did.

3) I am asking other people, I'm using a proxy, and I can simply do this: Anonymode Proxy - Unblock Myspace, Facebook, and other Websites

This is my .htaccess:

Code:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^proxlists.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.proxlists.com/$1 [r=301]

# Prevent hotlinking to hits.php
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?proxlists.com(/)?.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\hits.php$ http://www.proxlists.com [R,NC]

Originally Posted by Will.Spencer

Instead of using PHP, I am doing the same thing using Apache's mod_rewrite:

Code:

# Prevent hotlinking to hits.php
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?tech-faq.com(/)?.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\hits.php$ http://www.tech-faq.com/proxy.shtml [R,NC]

That would work probably work actually.

Originally Posted by webmaster

That would work probably work actually.

But it doesn't.

Do you have that "$row[0]" defined somewhere else?, If not, you are redirecting to an empty string. Besides that it would be nice to check only if domain name exists in referer string, because in this case you cannot refer users from other site pages (ie. ProxLists.com - Glype)

The way it should work you can still link to areas of the site without and issue you just cant hotlink the submitted proxy urls this helps avoid false inflating of stats. You might have a conflict in your htaccess as it did work on one of my sites.

Yes everything is meant to stop inflation of stats and it is defined in other parts of the file.

I'm working with someone to try and get .htaccess to do this.