Hotlink Protection For 1 Subdomain

[umz]

I have half a dozen or more subdomains but I only have one that I would like to set up Hotlink Protection. I tried to find a tutorial on how, but have not been able to find one as of yet so I'm giving up & asking for help

 

If I'm just being daft & overlooking it I apologize & would appreciate a point in the right direction (I'm not even really sure I've posted this in the right place! )

 

Thanks!

[TCH-RobertM]

Hi UMZ, I cannot help you with what your asking but I am sure someone here will shortly. Welcome to the forums, a great place for help

I did come accros this turorial though It might help you

hotlink tutorial

[TCH-Rob]

Put an .htaccess file in the main folder of the subdomain and put the following in it;

 

>RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?your-domain\.com/ [NC
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteRule \.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ images/not-for-u.jpg [L]

 

This will prevent anything but your domain from being able to show the images.

 

The not-for-u.jpg should be an image stating no hotlinking or something like that.

[umz]

Thank you both so much!

[TCH-Bruce]

Welcome to the family and forums umz!

[umz]

Thank you Bruce. I have loved TCH in the almost year that I've been here & often stalk the forum for random bits of information

 

 

Ok, now I'm getting an "500 Internal Server Error" when I try to access that subdomain. Did I set up the .htaccess file incorrectly?

[TCH-Bruce]

Rob's post was in error.

 

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?your-domain\.com/ [NC

It should have read:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?your-domain\.com/ [NC]

 

He was missing the closing ]

 

And remember to replace the your-domain with your actual domain name.

[TCH-Rob]

Dang me

[umz]

I've got to be doing something wrong. Can I blame in on my lack of HTML skills & the cold meds I've been taking? The 500 error is gone now but I can hotlink to the images in that subdomain.

 

Here's the code as I have it written:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(cybervovvar\.)?simplesuccess\.us [NC]RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$

RewriteRule \.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ images/notforyou.jpg [L]

 

I created the .htaccess file by writing it in an HTML editor program I have & saving it as ".htaccess". When it uploaded it now reads as .htaccess

If I click for information on the files type it tells me it's a

File Type: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators

 

Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?

 

btw- Thank you so much for your help so far, you guy's really are great

[TCH-Rob]

Try creating it in Notepad instead to make sure it is only the text that want it to be. Some editors like to put extra items in.

[umz]

Nope...that didn't work either. Perhaps I'm making the file wrong? This time I did it in notebook & named it .htaccess which then turned to .htaccess.txt so I uploaded that & with my ftp program renamed it .htaccess

[TCH-Rob]

Try making the file in your cPanel file manager and see if that works.

[kellybellydotnet]

The 500 error is gone now but I can hotlink to the images in that subdomain.

One other thing I've come across while testing out hotlinking on my sites: make sure you clear your cache first. If you have a copy of the images in your cache, there's a chance that that's why they're showing up for you.

 

I've run myself in circles before trying to figure out why I can see my supposedly unlinkable images on other sites when all it was was a cached image.

 

So clear the cache and then reload the page to make sure for certain that the hotlinking isn't working.

[umz]

Ooooo Cache...brill! Thanks Kelly!

 

Thank you all so very much! It's working great now It's no wonder I love TCH!