how to stop hot linking in angelfire?

JacobM5727 · March 16th, 2003, 02:30 AM

can someone tell me how to stop hotlinking in angelfire?
it does not use the .htaccess or whatever stuff..
i would just like to change the image hotlinked to another more rude one
thanks

it says all over my site not to.. and someone did anyway.. after they asked if they could use the pic too.. some people just dont get it

bebeangel · March 20th, 2003, 02:20 PM

couldn't you just upload the "rude" image with the same name as the one that's being hotlinked and just change the name of the one that is hotlinked?

-bebe

surreal · March 20th, 2003, 02:38 PM

http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forum...ghlight=busted

Mntsnow had the same problem. Why don't you go and check out how he solved it

crouse · March 20th, 2003, 03:15 PM

The site www.angelfire.com is running Squeegit/1.2.5 (3_sir) on Linux

Not sure what kind of server Squeegit is, or if it is a gzip compression program for apache.

Using a .htaccess file with apache, you can make other images show up on hotlinked images, so an alternate image is displayed in place of the hot linked one. The code for this is:

Code:

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

replace mydomain.com with your own, plus replace stupid.gif with whatever you want to show up in place of hotlinked images.

Put the .htaccess file in whatever image directory you want to protect from image hotlinking.

HTH's

**Socalgal** · March 20th, 2003, 11:01 PM

crouse, will that code work on IIS5 webservers?

crouse · March 20th, 2003, 11:38 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Socalgal
crouse, will that code work on IIS5 webservers?

I don't think so... I don't know since I use Apache.... I think the .htaccess file is a file read by APACHE ... not sure if IIS5 even uses .htaccess.

PM implexant he probably know since I know he uses it. ~~~not much help was I

davidamarkley · March 21st, 2003, 12:05 AM

Last time I used Angelfire, they automatically have an image that says something along the lines of 'This image is hosted by Angelfire'

EDIT: But now, I just checked again and they don't seem to do that anymore. Just do what Mntsnow did, and you'll be cooking!!

**Socalgal** · March 21st, 2003, 12:08 PM

Thanks, crouse

I'll check with Mntsnow to see if he's come up with a script to automate the process...

Mntsnow · March 22nd, 2003, 08:00 AM

In IIS look into a utility called leechblocker.

**Socalgal** · March 22nd, 2003, 04:26 PM

Thanks, Mike