Anti-hotlinking in effect

Posted in Blogging, Code by Elliott Back on July 11th, 2005.

Since I got slashdotted a little bit, I’ve turned on anti-hotlinking in the images folder with this htaccess rule:

# Hotlinking
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !elliottback\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !ericback\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !google\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !search\?q=cache [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|png)$ - [F,NC,L]

Let me know if I’m missing something, or you see any problems!

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Nat 3 years ago 1 point
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Where do you put this? because if you put it in your .htaccess wont wordpress overwrte it?

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http://pseudoweb.net/wordpress

Elliott Back 3 years ago 1 point
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This goes in your .htaccess file above the #WORDPRESS section. I assume wordpress is smart enough not to trounce preexisting rules and match only on that section when it updates, but I haven't checked it out yet.

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http://elliottback.com

Matt F. 1 year ago 1 point
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This is very cool for APache.... if only iis had htacess -- MS says wait for IIS 7, sheesh...

What about for IIS webservers? this one is so-so http://www.michaelbrumm.com/leechblocker.html --and this one seems to a good commericial one -- http://www.linkdeny.com. Anyone ever tried these out?

Thanks,
Matt

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http://www.google.com