Slightly technical question regarding mod_rewrite hotlink protection

**disregard** · 02-05-2005, 10:13 AM

The amount of problems it causes depends on what rules you use. The deal is that browsers aren't guaranteed to provide referrers so some rulesets will not let those browsers see your images. In real life, your audience has browsers that work fine with normal hotlink rules.

Make sure your rules are ok though.. some people have broken rules.

**Slap Dot** · 02-05-2005, 10:20 AM

You mean .htaccess hotlink protection? That's not what Mod Rewrite is

**swedguy** · 02-05-2005, 10:26 AM

Originally posted by Slap Dot

You mean .htaccess hotlink protection? That's not what Mod Rewrite is

mod_rewrite is used for regular image hotlink protection.

I have mine set up to allow from my own domains + browsers that doesn't send a referer and I don't have any problems.

**disregard** · 02-05-2005, 11:30 AM

Originally posted by Slap Dot

You mean .htaccess hotlink protection? That's not what Mod Rewrite is

Actually, mod_rewrite usually is used for .htaccess hotlink protection. You plop a bunch of mod_rewrite rules in your .htaccess file typically. Like this: http://faq.ath.cx/index.php?query=a126.html

**badmrfrosty** · 02-07-2005, 08:00 AM

Below is my .htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?pornacle\.com/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteRule \.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png|mpeg|wmv|mpg)$ - [F]

not sure if that looks ok? anyone have any pointers?

Thanks

Slightly technical question regarding mod_rewrite hotlink protection

Slightly technical question regarding mod_rewrite hotlink protection

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