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How do I prevent users bypassing a home page? ie Going direct to
mysite/forum/index.php instead of mysite/index.htm

In article <f6sqsg$2o6$1$830fa7a5@news.demon.co.uk>,
"Brian Telford" <brian@remove.this.rushford.antispam.demon.co.uk >
wrote:

> How do I prevent users bypassing a home page? ie Going direct to
> mysite/forum/index.php instead of mysite/index.htm

you can't, unless you start relying on cookies/sessions/... In that last
case, you have to set a short-life cookie for the user on
mysite/index.htm and check for that cookie on mysite/forum/* needless to
say that it's not very effective, and that it may become a real pain for
users.

patpro

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"Brian Telford" <brian@remove.this.rushford.antispam.demon.co.uk > wrote in
news:f6sqsg$2o6$1$830fa7a5@news.demon.co.uk:

> How do I prevent users bypassing a home page? ie Going direct to
> mysite/forum/index.php instead of mysite/index.htm
>
>

Make use of the environment variables, Referrer, SetEnvIf, and AllowFrom in
a <Directory> container.


I'd have to play around with it some but I'm sure someone else can give you
something a lot better, or give you some code to work with.





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