Hi.
I'm sure most of you have htaccess files on your servers for various redirects and image protection. For the newbies this lesson can be a painful one.
I have a domain that has just a couple of galleries on it. It's one of those sites that I'm "supposed to get to". Anyway, some fucker assholes were hotlinking that gallery. I just now noticed it in my stats.
First thing up. Toss a generic htaccess into that main directory to prevent them from hotlinking.
Second thing up, find the most disgusting pic on thie internet and use that as a rewrite rule.
Here is a basic example of what you new guys and gals should have in your haccess files.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://domain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.domain.com/.*$ [NC]RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://IP/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.IP/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg)$
http://www.domain.com/nasty.jpg [R,L]
it's probably overkill to use the IP as well, but that's just how I was learned.
All you do is add your domain, and add a disgusting pic.. or even a banner if you want.
(always thinkin' of the dollar)
Just save that to a text file call it htaccess.txt and then upload it to your directories. Then rename it on your server to .htaccess
Note that you can't server your nasty.jpg from a place where you have antihotlinking. So it's best to have the nasty.jpg in the root.
I say fuck 'em I go for the gross pic.
My nasty pic is of a jumper. GROSS!!! They guy is totally mushed up and .. just gross.
Anyway, fuck the hotlinkers. Have fun. Enjoy.
...and if you come to a sex site and see a pic of a jumper with his guts all over the road, just think of me and smile.