htaccess question

[seoguy]

hi,

can somebody tell me how my htaccess should look like when i want to deny hotlinking from 'bad' sites but allow google and all other search engines with picture search to display my pics?

[seoguy]

ok..

i found something, would this here work?

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?mydomain.com.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^.*msn\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^.*yahoo\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^.*altavista\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^.*google\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^.*webcrawler\. [NC]
RewriteRule ^.+\.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$ - [NC,F,L]

[chris01282]

Try this http://www.htaccesstools.com

Hope it helps

[seoguy]

this produces this here:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?yourdomain.com.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?sub.yourdomain.com.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?sub2.yourdomain.com.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^.+\.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$ - [NC,F,L]

are google and other search engines still able to display my pics then?