Siblog :: Web Design News » Htaccess http://www.sibagraphics.com/wp Web development resources, articles and discussion. Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:50:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Image protection with .htaccess http://www.sibagraphics.com/wp/2006/01/04/image-protection-with-htaccess/ http://www.sibagraphics.com/wp/2006/01/04/image-protection-with-htaccess/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2006 06:26:32 +0000 Siba http://www.sibagraphics.com/wp/2006/01/04/image-protection-with-htaccess/ Continue reading →]]> How to stop people stealing your images/bandwidth remotely:

(1) Make an image called dontsteal.gif and place it in a directory below the directory in which you are going to put the .htaccess file.

(2) Open notepad and copy this code … no hard carriage returns between lines.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://whateverdomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.whateverdomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(gif|GIF|jpg|JPG|zip|ZIP|png|PNG|swf|SWF)$ http://www.whateverdomain.com/dontsteal.gif [R,L]

(3) Change whateverdomain.com to whatever your domain is called.

(4) This code works with apache servers with mod_rewrite.

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