i've got a little problem now with someone hotlinking to my babe of the day pics without permission. they've also ripped off the credits for just about everything on their site (e107). the site being egg-nog.com

i'm hosting the images out of /images/babes and have tried adding an htaccess file in there. i can't seem to get it right using all the posts here about hotlinking and ip denials. i always either shut off all the images on my own site lol or have it so that my botd image isn't showing. i only want that one site or any future sites that might come up to be blocked from hotlinking to my babe of the day pics.

i would still like for hotlinking to be on because i use it for remote avatars and forum signatures and things like that. i just don't take too kindly to people that hotlink without asking.

try that:
www.webmasterworld.com...92/272.htm

you have to pay to go there

I found this in one of the forum. Maybe you can use it.

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I have been playing around (read: learning) with .htaccess, trying to prevent image hotlinking by other sites. When I place .htaccess in the www-directory of my website (www.middenschool-ninove.be) and enter Options -Indexes in it, then this does result in not being able to list a directory while surfing to a folder. This indicates to me that .htaccess is processed properly. However, when I add RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$ RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !.*middenschool.* [NC] RewriteRule \.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ - [F,NC,L] to it, it doesn't seem to have any effect on preventing other sites to hotlink to my images. I had uploaded a page with a hotlink on another website, but it still shows my picture. Is the use of RewriteEngine supported by the way PHP is installed by SpeedPacket, or is there any syntax error in the above lines that prevent the RewriteRule from being applied? I can block all images on my own site (middenschool-ninove.be) by using RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$ RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .*middenschool.* [NC] RewriteRule \.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ - [F,NC,L] (note that the middenschool-line has the not (!) left out now). This effectively shows NO images on my website. By putting ! back into the RewriteCond line, I restore my images, but they are also shown by other website that have a hotlink to them. Is anybody more experienced in this matter? Any suggestion is welcome.

MrPotatoes wrote:

you have to pay to go there

That's funny I went there through Google I didn't have any problem.
Anyway use Google search

tour93 wrote:

MrPotatoes wrote: you have to pay to go there That's funny I went there through Google I didn't have any problem. Anyway use Google search

I seem to see the samething that MrPotatos see.

Google search : hotlinking webmasterworld

I think WebSGuru found it

Also this is a good Tutorials too on .htaccess.

www.freewebmasterhelp..../htaccess/

oh geeez. i was putting in their url for the rewrite condition instead of my own. lol.

got it working

now how to direct the image for them to the hunk of the day lol hmmm.

There are several posts in the old 8.x forums on this subject.

Beware, if you have and use the CPanel option, it may overwrite your existinbg htaccess file.

oh and that last link websiteguru posted helped a ton. i recommend that link.

yeah i read that from an earlier thread phoenix, and i've been through all of those old posts too. i'm not ever going to use cpanel for htaccess. i did use the hotlink protection in cpanel and it didn't overwrite the file it just added to it. i didn't try the htaccess editor though.

it doesn't look like i can create a redirect from a certain url. such as
if from www.badhotlinker.com
redirect www.ratemypoo.com/

anyone have an idea of how to do that?

Just be careful that you don't redirect to a real site - it's illegal. This may work,

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RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://yoursite.com [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.yoursite.com [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://youripaddress [NC] RewriteRule ^.*$ www.yoursite.com/ [R,L]

Will redirect to you if the link doesn't come from you - use with EXTREME caution.

I've moved this to the Security forum, as I have with some previous topics.

I don't know if you have cPanel, but there's an option there where u can input domain names / IPs that can link to images or files directly. You can allow only your site or disallow the offending site.