How to prevent hotlinking using htaccess??

[tranza]

Is there anyway of preventing someone from hotlinking pictures using htaccess?

HELP! My BW bill is huge this month so far...

[Manowar]

http://altlab.com/hotlinking.html

http://www.unixcities.com/apache/index1.html

[Jon2]

http://www.htmlbasix.com/disablehotlinking.shtml

A generator

Jon

[Dalai lama]

thanks for those links.

[Antonio]

http://www.htmlite.com/HTA013.php

http://www.devpapers.com/article/242

http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess10.shtml

google is your friend

[Jon2]

http://www.htmlite.com/HTA013.php

http://www.devpapers.com/article/242

http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess10.shtml

google is your friend

What is google?

Jon

[MandyBlake]

i had the exact same question months ago and this board helped me out.
good luck.
big bw bills suck.

[tranza]

Ok, thanks!

But what about people that type in the browser the images URL directly. Can I redirect them?

[fris]

its only a bandwidth bill, pay it and stop crying ;)

[vapewiz]

It blows my mind that someone that has made 8k posts here does not know how to use htaccess to stop hotlinking. Even the surfers that post here would know how to search google to find out how to prevent it.

[jimmyf]

It blows my mind that someone that has made 8k posts here does not know how to use htaccess to stop hotlinking. Even the surfers that post here would know how to search google to find out how to prevent it.

I know

[kenny]

I wish .htaccess would work for movies.

[jimmyf]

Ok, thanks!

But what about people that type in the browser the images URL directly. Can I redirect them?

set up your .htaccess and find out







yes you can

[Antonio]

I'm not sure if you're fucking with us or you being serious but I'll bite. Doesn't matter if they type the url directly, if you set up .htaccess to redirect to your main page it will redirect them, e.g. a guy types:

http://www.tranza.com/somedir/someimage.jpg

he'll be redirected to

http://www.tranza.com/

[vapewiz]

I wish .htaccess would work for movies.

It can use this in htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://([a-z0-9-]+\.)*domain.com.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !(^|(.+;)*)id=valid(;.*|$)
RewriteRule ^.*\.wmv.*$ http://domain.com/hotlink.htm [R,L]

and put this javascript on the page with the movies

<script language='javascript' type='text/javascript'>
<!--

//hotlink protection
var expires = new Date ();
expires.setTime(expires.getTime() + 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000); 
document.cookie = "id=valid; path=/" + "; expires=" + expires.toGMTString();
//hotlink protection 
-->
</script>

[kenny]

I'm not sure if you're fucking with us or you being serious but I'll bite. Doesn't matter if they type the url directly, if you set up .htaccess to redirect to your main page it will redirect them, e.g. a guy types:

http://www.tranza.com/somedir/someimage.jpg

he'll be redirected to

http://www.tranza.com/

You can do it that way or use a custom image instead.

[chemicaleyes]

http://www.eadultindustry.com/tools/...n-checker.html

[darksoft]

You can do it that way or use a custom image instead.

Or you can be smart and send them somewhere else instead of continually wasting bandwidth on leechers. But then that wouldn't be cool.