Using .htaccess for Hotlink Protection. How to allow Google?
 

I've enable hotlink protection on all my sites, now how do I allow google to hotlink images from my site. For example when doing an image search, I want them to cache my images.

Will this code work???

come on, someone has to know, dont tell me today is ALL SURFERS day!

Google Images doesn't hotlink your thumbnails, so you can still get a thumbnail linked to your gallery or whatever on the image search without letting them hotlink to your pics.

so the pic won't be brokeN???? how will they grab a cach of it then?

How do I change my image in Google to forward surfers a given site (in the frame) when they click on the thumb?

joechip is partly correct...

However, make sure you allow null referrers if you want the spiders to find your images, otherwise they'll redirect per your hotlink instructions.

This says, allow null referrers and requests from my domain only to display images. Send all other requests to hotlink.html:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?yourdomain.com.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*[Jj][Pp][Gg]$|.*[Jj][Pp][Ee][Gg]$|.*[Gg][Ii][Ff]$ http://www.yourdomain.com/hotlink.html

Use a framebuster script and you won't have to worry about the site getting framed.

I've got that part, I just wanna know how to allow google's domain cuz google has .com, .ca, .uk and all these others ... I belive that there is a single RewriteCond line that does it

bump for night shift :)