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Question

This is a simple problem but I expect has a very difficult solution.

I want to have a page run some PHP code on http request, without using mod_rewrite and without using javascript.

ex. http://website.com/some_audio.mp3 when user or robot requests this link, a php script is called to process and then deny or allow the request.

I cannot use mod_rewrite for this, I know it sounds crazy just take my word for it. Also cannot use javascript either since robots would bypass this. need some kind of htaccess solution.

Answer 1

Telling to Apache "to interpret the file as PHP" (AddType application/x-httpd-php .mp3) is almost the same thing as rewriting the URL so, this is not possible without using mod_rewrite or, to simplify, without making the file a PHP script. However you may type some rewrite-conditions ("something like"... not tested), but you just sayd: without rewrite

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} .*Googlebot.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+\.mp3)$ - [F,L]