Found another vbulletin.org rip off site, how can I destroy them?

[Borgs8472]

Hi all. I complained about this before, but another site (chinese I think) is mirroring the hacks here.

The buggers are even hotlinking from my webspace.

Does anyone know how I can change external links hotlinked on that site only to say, goatse? I don't want to have hotlink protection on in general, just to piss off the users of that site.

[Paul M]

vb.org policy is not to allow the posting of links to these sites so I have removed it.

[Kirk Y]

I'm sure it can be done via .htaccess - but I don't enough about all the .htaccess rules to be able to tell you exactly; try Google.

[DrewM]

you use:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.yoursite.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.yoursite.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp)$ - [F,NC]

[Borgs8472]

^ ^
Is that generic hotlink protection? Cause I don't want that, I want one just directly at specific sites or sites..

maybe there's something in my cpanel...

[Borgs8472]

Since my post has been edited, I've lost my initial link.

To answer two of my questions at once, since I'm not allowed to post my mods as open source, do I have to link everyone to this pirate site when I want to show other forum owners not running vbulletin cool bbcodes to install?

*gets double points for making post relevent to two threads at once *

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Please define what you mean with 'Open Source'?

[Borgs8472]

I just want to post my bbcode thread so unregistered users can see the code. I guess I'd prefer they give me some credit for them but I think it's better code be spread without credit than not at all so it wouldn't be essential.

That's open source is it not?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

That is not what the normal definition of Open Source is, but allowing unregistered to see code will not happen here at vb.org.

[Borgs8472]

How far off am I then from the correct definition?

In any case I don't care. I just want my bbcode thread open so I can refer forums I frequent who are running different softwares to it. Else I'll have to refer them to the pirate thread.