preventing hotlinking

[jan_hut]

to prevent people from hotlinking to images use this code in you .htaccess file:

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?yoursite\.tld/ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg)$ - [F]

if you want to allow more referrers you can add the secondline with a different referrer

[cyberman]

Well done - thanx.

[JeremyBASS]

Hey just try this out... Got some odd results... the  jpg and gif images were not showing up in the site... admin and front end... any ideas on this...

the cms lives in a folder on the root so to get to the site...  it's sitename.org/folder/index.php... not sure if that is the issue...

#Stop Hotlinking to Items...
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?sitename\.org/ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg)$ - [F]

good idea here...

[jan_hut]

Jeremy, are you using a subdomain to point to that folder? something like folder.yoursite.org
in that case you'd just add it to the could, something like this:

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?yoursite\.tld/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(folder\.)?yoursite\.org/ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg)$ - [F]

[JeremyBASS]

no but now that I think abut it ... I was in https... that I think is the problem... I'll try again later