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!

[Shogunreaper]

Originally Posted by dxlwebs

and what if they dont have cpanel not everyone is rich you know

What kind of hosting does not have a cpanel lol?

[EidolonAH]

Originally Posted by 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]

I got that in my .htaccess file like this:

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

But it aint stopping the hotlinking (if it's working the image should be a nasty looking poo!)
*snip* nasty poo removed!

So what have I done wrong?

[Arcade Fire]

EidolonAH, woks fine for you, I see a poo

Delete cookies of your site, and you can see the diference.

[EidolonAH]

Originally Posted by Arcade Fire

EidolonAH, woks fine for you, I see a poo

Delete cookies of vb.org, and you can see the diference.

Thanks Arcade Fire, I just saw, I removed the nasty poo image.

[Robru]

[princeedward]

thanks for this....cant make it work...

here's my code

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

need help pls. thanks and best regards

[EidolonAH]

Originally Posted by princeedward

thanks for this....cant make it work...

here's my code

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

need help pls. thanks and best regards

<<< My Site Image

Give it a go from one of the smilies on your site or something like that, the image you are testing is hosted on photobucket, not your server.

[princeedward]

Originally Posted by EidolonAH

Give it a go from one of the smilies on your site or something like that, the image you are testing is hosted on photobucket, not your server.

i guess got it now....

[Mike08]

what about google spiders?? Do not we must insert his url's in this code??

[IRANCITY]

Originally Posted by Mike08

what about google spiders?? Do not we must insert his url's in this code??

this is my question...
how can alow bot for save this pic and page ?