Hotlinking Help

[lee20]

Does disabling hotlinking affect TGP bots when submitting galleries. If so, is there any way around this?
-thanks
lee20

[inSaNo]

Hi,

most of the tgp sites block galleries which have any form of script. (eg. hahahahahahahahahaha/php/cgi/asp) so if your gallery has such a script on it, it is quite possible that it is not accepted.

Just keep a good eye on the stats for that gallery, if you get loads of requests from a specific website, on a specific picture (or multiple pictures) it might be possible that its hotlinked.

[alterego]

Originally posted by lee20
Does disabling hotlinking affect TGP bots when submitting galleries. If so, is there any way around this?
-thanks
lee20

With some tgp scripts you can provide a thumbnail preview.
Some older scripts have the option to provide an
url to the thumb. I am not sure what happens
if you have a .htaccess protection to allow only
visits through your domain and you submit an
url with a preview thumb. ( I do not like that
option and on most submit forms owners do not
put the requiredwidth and height)

I like the new scripts with options like

crop the pic yourself
auto crop a pic form gallery.


The spiders will be able to check your gallery
if you use hotlink protection as long as you do not
change a bit you are safe.



Just my 2 cents

[teleblade69]

Place this code in your .htaccess file and put all your pictures in the directory of the .htaccess file and then all the directories under the .htaccess file are protected against hotlinking !


AuthUserFile /dev/null
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
RewriteEngine On
RewriteOptions inherit
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://.*domain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://XX.XX.XX.XX/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*[Jj][Pp][Gg]$|.*[Gg][Ii][Ff]$ http://www.domain.com/ [R,L]


Replace domain.nl and XX.XX.XX.XX by any domainname and IP adress which has access to the GIFS. Don't forget to but your own domain and IP

Check t at
http://www.hotlinking.com/

[teleblade69]

don't visit hotlinking.com the bastards redirect it to a commercial site

sorry...

[Krille]

http://www.antihotlinking.com

[doornx]

Just use the .htaccess file as described above.
Place your full images/movies in a seperate dir together with the .htaccess.

This makes sure the data can only be loaded when approached by a link on your site..easy

[NoAngel]

Originally posted by doornx

Originally posted by teleblade69

should work, testing it.
THX !!!