Hotlink Protection

[rumrugby]

hi everyone,

i noticed on "lordphi1's" Liquenox.com website that a feature of his hosting is hotlink (where people can not use your bandwidth through taking files and images through links). How is this done?

thanks

[113345]

Hi,

this is done through .htaccess.

Like:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://web49.nl/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.web49.nl/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp|snd)$ http://web49.nl [R,NC]

Example:
Whenever somebody tries to download a file with a direct address like http://web49.nl/i/php.gif they are redirected to your main page.

[rumrugby]

cool thanks

[deltaned]

on http://www.belspel.be/testpagina.htm I add an image on from my domain: nicegamez.com.
In the public_html flder I add the .htaccess file with the code like the start of this treat.

But nothing is redirecting to nicegamez.com :-(
Tips?

[neorder]

hi, i did the same .htaccess file

but i've got a new problem.

all pictures under subdomain.mydomain.com can't be displayed, what's wrong? :confused:

[113345]

Hi,

maybe it is best to only put this .htaccess in the directory that you want to protect.

[jmstacey]

Perhaps it could be a new feature in directadmin?

A page with options to deny all but grant to self and to defined domains or allow all and deny to defined domains.