Stop bandwidth thievery?
 

I've been having a big problem with bandwidth thieves of late, linking directly to images at my Web site from other sites, and I need to put a stop to it.

How can I set it up so that if someone tries to link directly to an image on my server it blocks them from doing so?

Use mod_rewrite... I don't have the exact syntax, but if you search Google for "mod_rewrite images stop bandwidth" I'm sure you'll come up with something. :)

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Worked perfectly!

Thanks a bunch, Chen!!!!

Actually, it worked a bit too perfectly. It's not only blocking other sites from loading up images at my site, but blocking my site from loading images in it as well!

I used my site's base URL's of x-mencomics.com and www.x-mencomics.com in the htaccess file, then tried adding the xfan subdirectory to the end of each and still no luck.

Any ideas how I can tweak it so as to stop it blocking my own site from loading images?

Try this:
http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive...dththeft.shtml

Yeah, I found that site and tried their method too. It's still blocking images from loading on my site, as well as blocking them when linked to on other sites.

I really don't know then, sorry. Try asking at vB.com's Server Config forum, eva2000 will know the answer. :)

Shall do. Thanks for taking the time out to try and help, Chen!

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