Comments on: Smarter Way To Prevent Image Hotlinking with .htaccess

By: thobib

thobib — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:07:32 +0000

i like this post, thanks very much ok..

By: aan

aan — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:45:24 +0000

thank you very much for your tips..
I still adopting it on my blog.

By: Babaji M P

Babaji M P — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:54:58 +0000

Using a replacement image is working.

But … ,

The replacement images changes to the dimension of the copied image !

For eg.,

The original image is http://mysite.com/image.jpg of dimension 800×900
replacement image is http://hosted.com/image.jpg of dimension 200×300

Now, the problem here is the replacement image is stretched to 800×900,
making it hard to see the warning on the replacement image.

Any idea how to make the replacement image to show specific dimension via .htaccess ?

Thank You.

By: Simon Wells

Simon Wells — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:09:50 +0000

Great tutorial, easy to understand.
I have implemented the mentioned changes, but who would like to test it out and hotlink to one of my images to see if it works?
I will return the favour for you.

By: Goran

Goran — Tue, 12 May 2009 01:21:47 +0000

Thanks for this tut, but for me works only if somebody hotlink “http://www.example.com/pic.jpg” but if he link “http://example.com/pic.jpg” there is no result (for me).
Is there any solution?
Thanks,
Goran

By: DH

DH — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:03:04 +0000

This method has been working for me well. Yet some sites seam to get around this still? Has anyone else had this problem?

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:32:05 +0000

I still haven’t got the hang out of it, how do you make sure the feeds show the pics? I’ve got idiots copying my whole site. At the same time unblocking SU with this didn’t work either:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?stumbleupon.com [NC]

Any suggestions? Do I have to put in like the subdomains too?

Thanks for your help

By: Glenndavid

Glenndavid — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:20:32 +0000

this is a really nice post, i never quit got the idea with .htaccess but you made it a little less cloudy :-)

great how the tuts are getting better in quality over time here at hongkiat :)

Glenn

By: ipank

ipank — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:09:21 +0000

i still understand with what u all talking about:(

how poor am i…..hikzzzz
don’t know anything about HTML, CSS, javascript, bandwidths, hotlink, domain, and all other words ’bout internet :(

By: Libor Fikr

Libor Fikr — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:20:42 +0000

Thank you for your tip.

By: oryzana

oryzana — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:30:53 +0000

very detailed tutorial… now i know the purpose of .htaccess . tqvm

By: devabby

devabby — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:38:19 +0000

cool and good tutorial , but i no need this since my hosting auto add .htaccess

By: hongkiat

hongkiat — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:08:08 +0000

@Yonghwee You only have to do it once. That’s writing the .htaccess and place it on the root of your web directory.

By: Yonghwee

Yonghwee — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:02:33 +0000

This is useful but is there a way to automatically block access to all images? Having to manually enter them one by one can be quite tiresome.

By: hongkiat

hongkiat — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:54:55 +0000

@Simon Yes, the first one can be deleted. And you are right, the image should be host somewhere else.