Interesting - RIAA and MPAA blocked from techfocus

[c.c.r.]

Check this article out (http://techfocus.org/comments.php?catid=17&id=3662) -- essentially, techfocus.org has blocked all of the known networks that the RIAA and MPAA own/use from accessing their site. If you're a RIAA employee, sitting at your desk, you can no longer access any content from techfocus.org.

What's even neater, they've posted a zipfile with an .htaccess document in it, which, for a web administrator, can be used to easily block RIAA and MPAA from your own site! Near the bottom of the page, there's even a little "This site blocks RIAA/MPAA" gif!

Why'd they do this? Go read, it's pretty interesting.

[neo]

ccr:

Very nice. If I had a site, I would do the same thing, post haste.

n

[acarrino]

i am trying to put that htaccess file on my site, but can't seem to get it to work.

is there someone who can dumb it down for me?

thanks,

\\ agc

[Bob]

wOOt!!

[c.c.r.]

Originally posted by acarrino
i am trying to put that htaccess file on my site, but can't seem to get it to work.

is there someone who can dumb it down for me?

thanks,

\\ agc

I know you have to do two things. You have to put the file .htaccess in the folder that you want to secure. In this case, to secure your entire site, put it in the root folder.

Second, you have to tell your webserver to use it. If you're using Apache (which, I believe, is the server that uses .htaccess files), you'll find answers in their very very very way too extensive helpfiles.

I don't know if this file will work on other servers, like IIS. Not a web expert. Just make sure the file is named .htaccess and NOT htaccess.txt.

[esb9588]

That's great! I wish I had a sight so I could block them!

[acarrino]

thanks for the help c.c.r. only problem is I don't know what i am hosted on; however, i don't think it is gonna work because i can't put a period in front of the 'htaccess' file name...i can only make the file say 'htaccess' but not '.htaccess'

any thoughts?

\\ agc

[c.c.r.]

If you can telnet into your server, you can do it from the command line. Now, my *nix commands are a bit shabby these days, so, let's pretend like your server is a DOS server. If it were, you'd type:

move htaccess.txt .htaccess

Grr, what the heck is the *nix equivalent of DOS's move? Anyone? Whatever it is, use that, hehe!

[SouthsideIrish]

Isn't it mv?

Bill McNair