Thursday, March 13, 2008

How to Create Download-Only Folders Using .htaccess Files?

Do you have an entire directory of download-only PDFs on your web server? You can change that directory's .htaccess file so that visitors are always prompted to download their PDFs. The trick is to send suitable Content-Type and Content-Disposition HTTP headers to the clients.

This works on Apache and Zeus web servers that have their .htaccess features enabled. In your PDF directory, add a file named .htaccess that has these lines:




1 comments:

Document Protection said...

Hi,

The site is about the importance of .htaccess files, the file which control the apache webserver is very useful and allows you to do a lot of things. You should have the detail knowledge of this server to work comfortably. Thanks a lot.