Posted by sean on April 1, 2006 at 10:39 pm in Website Stuff with No Comments


Before you read this, if you don’t know/care about computers or website design, ignore this blog as it’ll just confuse your brain…

I need help, anyone reading this a whiz on Unix or know about .htaccess?

I am having trouble with people hot-linking the images on my website, consequently stealing my bandwidth which I now pay for. The main offender is MySpace.com – bastards running their crappy pages and too cheapskates to pay for hosting…

Now, I can block ALL domains from hotlinking but that causes problems for genuine visitors who are running privacy software – something I do not want. I just want to block specific domains.

There are many websites suggesting code, my website hosts Made2Own have also been very helpful with this problem and have suggested similar code, I just can’t get it to work though. I have uploaded the .htaccess file correctly, using ASCII and the CHMOD settings are correct.

Here is the code I am using (which doesn’t work)

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www.)?myspace.com/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* – [F]

Any reason why this would not work? It’s not working for me, any other suggestions? Please contact me, I would be very grateful. Thanks!

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