Hotlink protection

Morlar

Hi,

Do you know if blacknight have any plans to enable hotlink protection on your windows hosting plans' control panel ?

I can see the flash tutorial on your site but apparently this is a linux-hosting only feature. Thanks in advance.

leonvquinn

Isn't this achievable with just a few lined in a .htaccess file?

jamesnp

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

Windows supports htaccess, doesn't it? :-/

mneylon

The .htaccess method might work, but it would depend on which server your site is on ie. ISAPI Rewrite is enabled on most of them

Morlar

blacknight wrote: »

The .htaccess method might work, but it would depend on which server your site is on ie. ISAPI Rewrite is enabled on most of them

Thanks for the info.

So I just need to ensure ISAPI rewrite is enabled for this webspace, then either create or edit a .htaccess in /webroot

add these lines :

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)blahblah.com [NC]
RewriteRule \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$ image_to_show.jpg [NC,R,L]

and it will prevent hotlinking ?

The second question is there a way to allow it for certain domains using this method (ie as you can using the Linux control panel method)? Or am I missing something there?

jamesnp

Morlar wrote: »

Thanks for the info.

So I just need to ensure ISAPI rewrite is enabled for this webspace, then either create or edit a .htaccess in /webroot

add these lines :

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)blahblah.com [NC]
RewriteRule \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$ image_to_show.jpg [NC,R,L]

and it will prevent hotlinking ?

The second question is there a way to allow it for certain domains using this method (ie as you can using the Linux control panel method)? Or am I missing something there?

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?yourdomain.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?alloweddomain2.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?alloweddomain3.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?alloweddomain4.com [NC]
RewriteRule \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$ image_to_show.jpg [NC,R,L]

Morlar

jamesnp wrote: »

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?yourdomain.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?alloweddomain2.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?alloweddomain3.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?alloweddomain4.com [NC]
RewriteRule \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$ image_to_show.jpg [NC,R,L]

Thanks a lot - will try that later

mneylon

Morlar wrote: »

Thanks for the info.

So I just need to ensure ISAPI rewrite is enabled for this webspace, then either create or edit a .htaccess in /webroot

Pretty much - yes

As for the actual syntax - I'm not a regex person - sorry

Morlar

This worked - cheers.