Mini Mods - Stop Image Hotlinking!

Hey all,

I thought that this might be usefull for you all its very simple and you can do it within 1 minute!

Basically all it does is stop people from hotlinking your images and using your bandwidth!

This code below allows your to stop hotlink for all sites apart from the sites you choose all you do is add this code your you .htaccess file!

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?yoursite.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?domain2.com [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|png|bmp|gif)$ http://yourdomain.com/forum/nhl.png [NC,R,L]

i have provided a image below for you to use if you would like other wise you can put your own image there, just chage the address of your site and location to your forum and add my image to your forum root and everytime some one trys to hotlink you they will only see that image!

thats it easy as pie! remember to back up your .htaccess file before editing anything!

[FiMeTi]

Well that works, but I can´t get the deny.png to show. There´s just no image or a brokenlink-img. But it blocks other websites.

[EidolonAH]

Originally Posted by FiMeTi

Well that works, but I can?t get the deny.png to show. There?s just no image or a brokenlink-img. But it blocks other websites.

can you post what you have in your .htaccess and where you put it that file, I can't get this to work myself.

[FiMeTi]

At the bottom of your .htaccess file you drop in this code.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?MYDOMAIN\.com/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ /images/misc/deny.png [L]

But the deny image does not pop up. Neither with this code, nor with the code of dxlwebs. ;/

[dxlwebs]

add this into your .htacces file in your forums root

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?yoursite.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?domain2.com [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|png|bmp|gif)$ http://yourdomain.com/forum/nhl.png [NC,R,L]

edit the links to your specified needs remember to put the correct links in and you must have your site url where i put yoursite.com to make sure that your sites images still show!

[dxlwebs]

Originally Posted by FiMeTi

At the bottom of your .htaccess file you drop in this code.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?MYDOMAIN\.com/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ http://yoursite.com/images/misc/deny.png [L]

But the deny image does not pop up. Neither with this code, nor with the code of dxlwebs. ;/

your forgot to put your sites domain then the image socation i etided it in the quote take a look!

[FiMeTi]

Thanks mate, but I tried that surely, too. Still not working. Cache always empty before I test.
Anyway, this is still good enough.

[dxlwebs]

hmmm try putting www. before your domain if not then im stumped it should work!

[Arcade Fire]

Works, but not show alternative image.

I put one smile of my forum in Post #3 of this thread, but isn't sustitute for nhl.png image.

[thedvs]

this is mine which i have used for years, works great, use .gif for the deny picture!

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://.*websitename\.com.*$ [NC] 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  !^.*leech\.gif$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*\.(swf|bmp|gif|jpg|png|jpeg|avi|wmv|mpg|mpeg|wav|mp3)$ http://www.websitename.com/leech.gif [NC,R,L]

[Arcade Fire]

Thanks theadvs, woks fine!.

Example wen i put a icon of my forum: