I don't know about the rest of you, but I've HAD
IT with people direct linking to my files. Over
half of my bandwidth has been stolen from these
people. So I decided to take some steps.
Note: the following ONLY works if you your server
admin has set up both htaccess and mod_rewrite
set up.
Create a file in your root directory called
".htaccess"
note that there is a dot in front of the word.
in the file add the following:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?
mydomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg)$
http://www.mydomain.com/theif.gif [R,L]
replace mydomain.com with your site URL, minus
the WWW. Change the theif image to whatever you
want. If you'd like to be able to use your images
on animanga, add this RewriteCond before the
ReWrite Rule.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?
eu.animanga.com/.*$ [NC]
and then add whatever other allowable sites you
wish. If you want to block out files as well,
AFTER the RewriteRule above, copy all of the
RewriteCond again, and at the very end of the
list, add:
RewriteRule \.(mpeg|mp3|mpg|mpeg|avi|wav|au)$
http://www.mydomain.com/theif.html [R,L]
This will redirect all direct file links of the
above extensions to your theif warning page >:-D
How well does this work? Well, if you have
internet explorer, go to this page and double-
click on the characters...
Click Here
To see the media files in action, go to this page
listed as my URL at the top of this post and
click on the 'pink sugar heart attack' link, 2nd
down in the 3rd table. The URL was too long to be
shown here.
My sources of info come from
http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess.shtml
and
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_rewrite.html
Hope this helps some other people too ^^
TTYL
Karen
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