disable hotlinking

[roeiboot]

oi~

i have this .htaccess file in my root:

[---]
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^

http://(www\.)?roeiboot.com(/)?.*$

[NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^

http://(www\.)?tribalectic.com(/)?.*$

[NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^

http://(www\.)?forums.delphiforums.com/VLXriders(/)?.*$

[NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|bmp)$

http://impala.roeiboot.com/x.jpg

[R,NC]
[---]

in most cases i tested it works, BUT if i go to the Delphi forum and post a messages like <a href="

http://www.roeiboot.com/tats/max.jpg">view

image</a> it returns with the 'no linking' graphic. tried various variations on the link in the .htaccess file but nothing helps. what am i doing wrong ?

--
thanks in advance,
rb.

 

[predamarcel]

are you sure that you want to check the %{HTTP_REFERER} ?!
'cause in case of a forum I suppose that the HTTP_REFERER is other site not one of above ...

PM

 

[roeiboot]

PM; is there something else i can check so it would work w/ forums, a example link to a message on that forum (where i do want to allow linking) is "

http://forums.delphiforums.com/VLXriders/messages?msg=11386.1"

thanks for the reply.

 

[predamarcel]

your URL (delphi forums) has some frames,
and in fact the HTTP_REFERER is

http://forums.delphiforums.com/n/mb...s&ctx=&cacheTag=54-33&msg=11386.1

so, I think taht is better to live the just:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^

http://(www\.)?forums.delphiforums.com(/)?.*$

[NC]

or better:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^

http://(www\.)?forums.delphiforums.com(/)?

[NC]

The `.*$' sequence in a reg_exp is useless, just think


PM

 

[roeiboot]

PM; thanks.. put the one you gave me in it, now i get a "The page cannot be displayed".

[.htaccess]
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^

http://(www\.)?roeiboot.com(/)?.*$

[NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^

http://(www\.)?tribalectic.com(/)?.*$

[NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^

http://(www\.)?forums.delphiforums.com(/)?

[[NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|bmp)$

http://impala.roeiboot.com/x.jpg

[R,NC]

 

[predamarcel]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^

http://(www\.)?forums.delphiforums.com(/)?

[[NC] ?!

should be:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^

http://(www\.)?forums.delphiforums.com(/)?

[NC]

by the way,
you can set

RewriteLogLevel 9
RewriteLog /path/to/log_file

and see what's happend.

also you can check the error_log file

 

[roeiboot]

predamarcel; the line i had is the same isn't it, anyway i copy 'n pasted it into the .htaccess, see here:

--
ptions +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^

http://(www\.)?roeiboot.com(/)?.*$

[NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^

http://(www\.)?tribalectic.com(/)?.*$

[NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^

http://(www\.)?forums.delphiforums.com(/)?

[NC]
RewriteLogLevel 9
RewriteLog /usr/error-log
RewriteRule .*\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|bmp)$

http://impala.roeiboot.com/x.jpg

[R,NC]
--
the .htaccess is in the root, and it results in a error 500, page cannot be displayed.

thanks!

 

[predamarcel]

check
/usr/error-log file.


by the way what you want to achive with the Rewrite sequence above ?


PM

 

[roeiboot]

PM; for some reason there no error-log.. anyway, i think i have it working, need to do some more testing.

what i am after is that only people/web-sites i allow can 'hot-link' images.

 

[predamarcel]

I suppose that your apache is running as uid nobody/http/web/etc...
and has no write access to '/usr' dir.

for this reason the file doesn't exist.


PM