[UKBusinessLive]

Wow, Thanks guys i'm going to give the .htaccess a bash later, and perhaps do it so it replaces the picture with another one , That way i can get some free advertising for my forum

Couldn't wait

This is what i added to my .htaccess file right at the bottom

RewriteEngine on 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/.*$ [NC] 
RewriteRule .(gif|jpg)$ http://www.ukbusinesslive.co.uk/forum/images/misc/hotlink.jpg [R,L]

so when someone hotlinks to an image on my site the image will get replaced by this one



so this is what you need to do...

Open up your notepad or another text editor, and copy the code above to it. Name this file .htaccess and make sure it doesn't have an extension on the end, like .txt. If it is named .htaccess.txt, rename it .htaccess. Save it and upload it to your main directory on youir server. Or, you can upload it as .htaccess.txt, and rename it when it's on your server. If you already have a .htaccess file in your directory, because you have an IP block or something, just put the code beneath whatever you already have.

Replace mysite with the url of your site. Replace the hotlink.jpg with the url of the image you want to show up instead of your own when people hotlink to it.

Now i'm look forward to some free advertising