Stop Hotlinking With HTAccess – Resources

Resources to stop Hotlinking via HTAccess

Preventing hot linking of images and other file types – JavaScriptKit

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www.)?mydomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .(gif|jpg|js|css)$ - [F]


Prevent hotlinking with a .htaccess file – MediaTemple

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www.)example.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .(gif|jpg|jpeg|bmp|zip|rar|mp3|flv|swf|xml|php|png|css|pdf)$ - [F]


Smarter Way To Prevent Image Hotlinking With .Htaccess – HongKiat

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www.)?yourdomain.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www.)?yourdomain2.com [NC]
RewriteRule .(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$ http://hpmouse.googlepages.com/hotlink.gif [NC,R,L]


Testing to make sure I can’t Hotlink to an image from a client’s website. There should be a broken-image icon below:

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