Bandwidth Thief
 

Someone keeps linking to my attachments on my server and posting them everywhere. I didn't mind this at first, but my site isn't getting any bigger by this guy posting everything on other forums instead of making them come to me.

Is their any way i can stop this from happening but when he does do it, i want another image to appear like they do at angelfire when you try to hotlink their images. Hopefully you guys know what i'm tlaking about and can help.

Thanks

http://forums.devshed.com

Search there for 'htaccess image' and you should find something useful. ;)

im sure if u set the attachments so guests cant download em then if he links to em anyway they still gotta be registered on your site to download em anyway.

Or, most cpanel controlled accounts have a feature to stop "hotlinking". Check it out if your on a cpanel account - lots easier ;)

searched and found a bunch of unanswered question

my option still stands - if you set permissions right then members linking to your attachments wont be able to download them unless they a member.

I'll Third that! :ermm:

Even if the provide a direct link to the attachment? I'll test it out. Thanks alot.

yep, even so.

Sweet thanks that worked.

Now i am attempting to figure out how to get the .htaccess file to work and what directory are the attachments stored in?

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} .*attachmentid=.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?yoursite\.com/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteRule ^.* - [F]

If your site is also accessible through ip, add
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://11.22.33.44/ [NC]
below RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?yoursite\.com/ [NC].

Alex