Comments on: redirect a link to a direct file

Question: redirect a link to a direct file

garethspor — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 12:53:06 -0800

Help! I got boing-boinged yesterday and have since gone way over my bandwidth limit. The offending item was a direct link to a .mov file, which I have just posted on revver, but I don't know if there is any way to redirect a direct link to a file. Any suggestions? Should I just take down the file and craft a specific 404 file? how do i do that?

By: xmutex

xmutex — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:02:48 -0800

Are you on a Windows or Unix platform? You could use an .htaccess file w/ a mod_rewrite rule to redirect the traffic if you're hosted on Apache.

By: zsazsa

zsazsa — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:04:16 -0800

If your hosting provider can parse .htaccess files (most do), you can put this line in an .htaccess file in the directory with the file in question:

Redirect movie.mov http://www.newsite.com/movie.mov

By: xmutex

xmutex — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:04:57 -0800

Off the top of my head, rewrite syntax would be (this in an .htaccess file in the same folder of the MOV or in the site root):

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule filename.mov$ http://www.someotherurl.com

By: xmutex

xmutex — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:05:07 -0800

doh :)

By: zsazsa

zsazsa — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:09:32 -0800

Note that xmutex's option may work if mine doesn't; each requires different modules which may or may not be loaded in Apache. Mine requires mod_alias, xmutex's requires mod_rewrite.

By: garethspor

garethspor — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:18:18 -0800

11 minutes, thanks AxeMe!

By: fire&wings

fire&wings — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:24:34 -0800

That's a great video. What a lot of work! My brain would never be able to handle the logistics of all that masking...

By: garethspor

garethspor — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:06:52 -0800

that masking tape was expensive too.

By: AmbroseChapel

AmbroseChapel — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:47:51 -0800

Nice video. I was one of the people maxing out your bandwidth yesterday.

How does Revver work, by the way? There are no ads on the pages...

By: smackfu

smackfu — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:59:09 -0800

The last frame of the movie is a clickable ad. It's more obvious when it's a shorter video.