[Rouzbeh1]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

I've given a lot of thought to this to see how to implement this cleanly, and this is my proposal.

Instead of having multiple url fields on the 'add entry' form, I've written an 'extra' that works alongside the LDM 'mod_rewrite' feature. This extra adds several new options to the LDM admin/settings page:
a) a url string to look for
b) one to five url strings to replace by
plus a couple of other switches.

When the extra is active, all LDM entries will be tested against the 'look for' string immediately before jumping/downloading. If they match, the 'look for' will be randomly replaced by one of the 'replace by' strings, in other words balancing the downloads across multiple servers.

This allows the admin to change the settings 'on the fly' withough having to edit all the entries.

This is, in effect, the same as the 'mod_rewrite' feature, except that it allows you to have a randomly-selected replacement. (If you are familiar with the Apache mod_rewrite moules, this is the effect of the ReplaceMap and rnd: options).

Please let me know if this is sufficient for your needs, so that I can finalise it.

thank you very much
to understand it clearly, is there any option too add per entry or they will be set in admin panel and the rest work exactly as the concept of mirroring....?
the second question is: for example i have set my apache to allow ONLY 1 connection per IP at the same time (second connection gets error page 503 displayed)or in another case, the file doesn't exist on that mirror.... would there be any option (if possible) to check the error code on the server (like 404 error if file doesn't exist on that mirror.....) i know that this option could be meaning for you to spend much time, so ONLY IF you have the time, it would be perfect to have this option, to avoid users get forwarded to broken links etc.

thanks again for the awesome work here