Redirected from here, I need to prevent access of PDF (or any other) file types, when someone access it using direct URL.
The Problem
Say you had a PDF file that you’d like visitors on your own site to download.
However, if someone were to copy this link and call it from a browser window directly, or if they were to post the link to you PDF on another website then the document shall not be accessible. By default it is.
I am successful in hiding the pdf file path in address bar and the url formed is http://localhost/myproject/web/viewer.php?id=11&name=sample.pdf, but in console one can see the complete path like http://localhost/myproject/document/11/sample.pdf.
This code redirects successfully on second time page reload, but not when I select Open in new tab from console.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?localhost [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !hotlink\.(pdf) [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(pdf)$ http://google.com/ [NC]
Used below code in .htaccess to prevent access
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?localhost [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?localhost.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(pdf)$ - [F]
Somehow it does not work accurately. It shows file forbidden message only if I hit CTRL+SHIFT+R key otherwise using the file URL I can still access it.
I want to prevent the pdf file showing as http://localhost/myproject/document/11/sample.pdf directly in the url bar
