Hot Linking
 

Is there a way to stop someone from hotlinking pictures on your site? Someone did this to me and used up ALL 10 gigs in one day. WTF??!!!

Use .htaccess or buy any anti hotlink script

do you know what .htaccess is and how 2 make one

That would be a neagtive. Still learning the ropes. Any help is appericated. Thanks.

what do you mean by ALL 10 gigs ? ? you have only 10 gigs avail a month ??? :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Yep.

If by Monday you have not resolved your problem, ICQ me (in sig) and I'll write one for you. Cant do it on the weekend, to busy.

Yes...for free. It like like 30 seconds.

Ray

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?216.xxx.xx.xx(/)?.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?mydomain.com(/)?.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?myotherdomain.com(/)?.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|bmp)$ http://www.mydomain.com [R,NC]

the rewritecond allows you to specify what domains can link the images
the rewriterule redirects them.

the hahaha123 are supposed to be brackets

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

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/htaccess.html

If you check your traffic files you can quite easily find which site(s) are hotlinking your images as well. Just send them a nasty email and chances are they'll remove the link ...

I've found many times photos are hotlinked from a message board in India or something. In this case after the thread gets buried the hits will slowly stop coming.

i don't need it :Graucho

be sure when you FTP it you do it in ascii or you will screw it up

AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AddHandler server-parsed .html
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.yourdomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://yourdomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.yourdomain.com:80/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://yourdomain.com:80/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://XXX.XX.XXX.XXX/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://XXX.XX.XXX.XXX:80/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.jpg$ http://www.yourdomain.com [R,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.yourdomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://yourdomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.yourdomain.com:80/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://yourdomain.com:80/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://XXX.XX.XXX.XXX/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://XXX.XX.XXX.XXX:80/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.gif$ http://www.yourdomain.com [R,L]
ErrorDocument 404 http://www.yourdomain.com/or sponsor Epic cash 404 traffic
ErrorDocument 302 http://www.yourdomain.com/or sponsor Epic cash 404 traffic
ErrorDocument 400 http://www.yourdomain.com/or sponsor Epic cash 404 traffic
ErrorDocument 401 http://www.yourdomain.com/or sponsor Epic cash 404 traffic
ErrorDocument 403 http://www.yourdomain.com/or sponsor Epic cash 404 traffic
ErrorDocument 500 http://www.yourdomain.com/or sponsor Epic cash 404 traffic

icq me and i will give you one or email it 2 you

can't post it on this board... take out some char's and puts in hahahaha

if on a IIs then this link is cool try this

Hey guys I appericate all your help. I found out where it was coming from, so I sent him a pretty nasty e-mail. Hopefully that will settle things down. Thanks again.

Take a look here
http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess.shtml

btw... I don't think a nasty email will be enough.

try slapping him on the wrist next time, i hear that works better

seriously, what do you mean by ALL 10 gigs?

regardless, you are getting ripped off

want me to DDoS him with my 5000 zombies? :winkwink:



j/k :1orglaugh

LOL....nice! Jace, you know I'm not a big time playa yet like you. HA! That's all I need for the moment. This webmaster thing will take time, so I'll hook it up when the time is right. What is a normal bandwith limit anyways? At the risk of looking like an ass......

Try h2oh-hosting.com

75 gigs of bandwidth a month for about $13 ...

And use .htaccess, of course. :)

great thread - thanks!

dude, 10gb of hosting is nothing....you should not pay more than $4-5 a month for that

on www.webair.com for example, you can get 50gb for $9.95...

just FYI, an email will not get them to stop hotlinking...you will NEED the htaccess

HA! Just got an email back apologizing for hotlinking. Still gonna use the .htaccess though. I'll look into some new hosting too. I think I'm getting screwed on th file transfer limit. Though my hosting hasn't billed me in 6 months. Suckers!!!

They might have cancelled your hosting.
You sig shows a red x.
:glugglug

Great thread. I've been meaning to do up my htaccess but havent gotten around to it.

That's because my bandwith was all used up. * See topic of this thread *