Comments on: Using .htaccess to stop remote image linking (hotlinking) and bandwidth theft

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:37:37 +0000

Ironside, put the mouse down, step away from the paranoia!

Your previous comment wasn’t deleted, it simply went into the modeeration queue until I got around to checking the queue and approving the comments.

By: Ironside

Ironside — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:05:20 +0000

I see my post dated 1/5/08 was deleted. Hmmm, I wonder if it was because of the link to my Homepage and my political views. Perhaps you shouldn’t offer your viewers to link to their sites, if you’re going to surpress free speech.

Instead of answering my question, you’ve deleted my post. Unbelievable!

By: Ironside

Ironside — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:08:00 +0000

Will this effect the favicon.ico file from apprearing in the URL wondow and/or the bookmark?

By: BlaKKJaKK

BlaKKJaKK — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:23:58 +0000

Strange, doesn’t work for me. I did have hot linking disabled via “Preventing Hotlinking” button on my cPanel but I was looking for way to allow certain sites. It was only after I used this code that I say there was an option to allow sites. Duhh. Anyway the script stopped working and I tried writing the above manually to my .htaccess file but nada. Guess I am off to support.

By: Beverly

Beverly — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 23:03:43 +0000

I see that there are ways to block all other sites from using your images, and to allow a particular few, but is there a way to block only -certain- sites and their subdomains (I have a lot of problems with myspace and other similar sites)?

By: Gibbler

Gibbler — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 18:51:44 +0000

Thank you for the easy to understand instructions. I will be trying this out as soon as I get a chance.

Thanks again.

By: Karen

Karen — Sat, 22 Jan 2005 02:05:03 +0000

Aw, this is an interesting idea. I have become more aware of security lately and think I’ll give this a try.

Thanks for posting in a manner that is easy to understand.

By: Tom Raftery's I.T. ramblings » Using .htaccess to redirect hotlinkers to another image

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

[...] inkers to another image Filed under: Blogging *nix — Tom @ 2:07 pm In my last post on using .htaccess to block hotlinking of images I advised simply using the RewriteRule [...]

By: Tom Raftery's I.T. ramblings » Using .htaccess to redirect hotlinkers to another image

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

[...] inkers to another image Filed under: Blogging *nix — Tom @ 2:07 pm In my last post on using .htaccess to block hotlinking of images I advised simply using the RewriteRule [...]