Hotlinking

Black-Artist · 6th August 2007, 12:13 AM

Hi People,

does anyone know if there is any hotlink protection in the control panel?

If not can someone suggest how to stop hotlinking to images, I have tried using .htaccess but it then blocks the images on my site, instead of externally.

Any help appreciated.

BA

UH-Matt · 6th August 2007, 04:17 AM

Have you searched these forums? Htaccess is the right thing to use and you can use it to block from external sites but not your own, im sure the code has been posted many times before..

Lindyloo · 4th April 2008, 06:49 AM

I use the following:
Stop the b******** stealing my bandwidth

This works beautifully and instead of the hotlinkers site or blog showing the image they intended to see, they see this

This unfortunately works too well as I want to be able to cross hotlink from myownmainwebsite1 to myownmainwebsite2 (and vice versa).
Is there a line I can add to the following code to allow hotlinking from selected sites?

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

If there is, please post it or pm me.
Thanks.
LL

Samizdata · 4th April 2008, 07:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lindyloo

Is there a line I can add to the following code to allow hotlinking from selected sites?

I would suggest something like this:

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?yourdomain\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?yourotherdomain\.com [NC]
# Put any other friendly domains here as above
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/hotlink
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/hotlink.$1 [NC,L]

This would require both a substitute .gif and a substitute .jpg file, but it does demonstrate how it might be adapted for other file types.

Lindyloo · 4th April 2008, 08:06 AM

Brilliant!
and before 8am as well.
Thanks Samizdata.
LL