Answer by pQd for Apache 2: Prevent image hotlinking serverwide
referer checking not always works, some proxies or even browsers strip HTTP_REFERER header from http requests. it's much better to check some cookies in your content-generating code [ eg index.php that...
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I have something like this in my httpd.conf:RewriteCond "%{HTTP_REFERER}" !=""RewriteCond "%{HTTP_REFERER}""!^http://www.mydomain.com/.*$" [NC]RewriteRule "\.(jpg|png)$ - [F]You might need to use this...
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I have a solution, even if it is not very beautiful, because it leaves the default error 403 document changed even if the image is not hotlinked:This goes into apache2.conf: SetEnvIfNoCase Referer...
View ArticleAnswer by Iain for Apache 2: Prevent image hotlinking serverwide
The only effective way to do is is with mod rewrite rules. If the referrer is not from your own domain, then rewrite the image url to be one that is non-existant, somewhere else, or a 1px by 1px...
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I'm trying to block access to images on my server if they are linked from some common "baddies", i.e. sites with users that tend to use other peoples...
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