I need some help

[Whipsound]

I realise people are starting to steal my images. I'm not concerned about my bandwidth - I just don't really like people doing it. I saw some sites use a script where when someone hotlinks an image from a site this banner comes up saying "You have stolen from "thisite". Would anyone know where I could find a script like this to prevent people stealing my images?

Thanks.

[Ben]

http://altlab.com/htaccess_tutorial.html

This tells how to create a .htaccess file to stop hotlinking. :-)

[webzone (archived)]

A code to prevent hotlinking has already been posted a few weeks ago.

Here it is :

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^(http://(www\.)?freepgs.com/webzone(/.*)?)?$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|png)$ / [F,L]

Simply change the RewriteCond line to match your website address and put this inside your .htaccess inside your root directory (ftp.freepgs.com) or inside /httpdocs (plesk.lvcs.net). It should return a "403 - Forbidden" error when an external site uses your images (.gif, .jpg, .png).

[Whipsound]

Ergg, that just made all the images on my site go and I got a server error. That wasn't exaclty what I wanted.

[Whipsound]

That external error appears on my site as well? How can I change this :/

[webzone (archived)]

Ergg, that just made all the images on my site go and I got a server error.

Server Error means that Apache does not understand your .htaccess code. You have certainly made a mistake somewhere when copying this code, as I already tested it on two accounts and got no errors.

Could you copy the contents of .htaccess and post it here?

[webzone (archived)]

[NC needs a closing bracket like [NC]

[Whipsound]

Ok well the site works now - exept all the images are gone broken :/

[webzone (archived)]

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^(http://(www\.)?habbo-hood\.com/dir(/.*)?)?$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpe?g|bmp|png)$ / [F,L]

The code right above should work properly on your site. Could you try?

[Whipsound]

That just makes the images broken on my site. Take a look
habbo-hood.com

[Whipsound]

I just realised that the .PNG images only work...

[webzone (archived)]

All works for me... I can see your images on your front page but I can't hotlink them.

Try to clean up your browser cache.

[webzone (archived)]

Forget about my comment, I tested in Opera without sending the referer header. I'm awfully sorry.

I just realised : you don't have a /dir/ directory on your site, but you require it to be present in the referer header. You may be luckier with this code :

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^(http://(www\.)?habbo-hood\.com(/.*)?)?$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpe?g|bmp|png)$ / [F,L]

[Whipsound]

Ahhh thats it! Now is there a way where if someone stole an image a image on their site will appear saying " Don't Steal" or something like that?

[Whipsound]

Figured it out. No need to help me. Thanks a lot! Your a big help !