.htaccess help - redirect all traffic

[st0ned]

I have a myspace resource site (customizeyourpage.com) which I abandoned a long time ago, however it still gets continuous traffic. The site makes little or no money and is a major bandwidth hog. I had kept the site up with plans to eventually sell it, but it doesn't look like I will get around to it...

Anyway here is what I want to do:
Create an .htaccess file that will redirect ALL traffic to a URL of my choice. This should include 404 and everything. As I will be deleting EVERYTHING on the server, so whenever someone tries to visit any url (image, page, etc) they should be redirected. How do I go about doing this?

Also, if its possible, i'd like to replace all the images that are hotlinked with an image that says something along the lines of: "image removed, visit customizeyourpage.com for the new code".

If anyone could help me out with this I would be grateful, I will compensate you however I can. If you can help, please respond here or hit me up at fizuct[at]gmail[dot]com.

Thanks

[FlexxAeon]

do a search for a "301 redirect" if you're keeping the domain. here's an example of a redirect code i found with a quick search:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

i'm not sure offhand how that will affect hotlinked images, but if it doesn't affect them you could add this to your htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?mysite\.com/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ /images/nohotlink.jpg [L]

with the "/images/nohotlink.jpg" being the location of the image file you described. either way, the 301 would be your primary action to keep getting that traffic

[st0ned]

do a search for a "301 redirect" if you're keeping the domain. here's an example of a redirect code i found with a quick search:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

i'm not sure offhand how that will affect hotlinked images, but if it doesn't affect them you could add this to your htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?mysite\.com/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ /images/nohotlink.jpg [L]

with the "/images/nohotlink.jpg" being the location of the image file you described. either way, the 301 would be your primary action to keep getting that traffic

Thank you VERY much for your help! I will fool around with a bit and see what I can do.

[st0ned]

Well, its redirecting all traffic. But I can't seem to get it to display the hotlink image at the same time. Any ideas?

[FlexxAeon]

could be the 301 affecting the hotlinks. like i said i wasn't sure if it would affect outside image linking (i never done a 301 and a hotlink rewrite at the same time ) but i assumed it might

you could do a softer redirect with javascript or PHP and then use the hotlinking rewite? that would affect your search engine rankings more than a 301 (i think). so the question is...which is more important? displaying the image or redirecting the traffic?

[donborno]

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(jpg|gif)$
RewriteRule .* http://www.google.com/ [L,R=302]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/?gfy.jpg
RewriteRule .+\.(jpg|gif)$ /gfy.jpg