Topic awaiting preservation: .htaccess question...

Hello hello,

Recently, I created a .htaccess file for one of my websites, to prevent hotlinking, as there have been a number of hotlinking issues in the past.

Recently, I discovered that I'd forgotten something: There's a directory called /banners/ that I use for their banner exchanges. Now, those images are showing up as broken in the banner exchanges. Below is my .htaccess file, placed in the root of their site. Any help so as to allow all the GIF and JPG/JPEG files in the /banners/ directory would be of great appreciation.

ErrorDocument 404 /404.php



RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?theirdomain.com/.*$ [NC]

RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg)$ - [F]

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-Dave

Maker of stuff, user of things
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Hey DaveFA. I recently went through this too. The problem was that the images were not linked from the root.

I had this:

<img src="../images/myimage.gif">

instead of:

<img src="/../images/myimage.gif">

notice the extra slash at the beginning. After that everything worked. Also, I would suggest taking out the last line of your .htaccess as it may cause problems down the road.

RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg)$ - [F]

just working from past experence and what very knowlegable people have told me

Later,

C:\

The images work just fine on their website. It's just that there's one directory, /banners/ which I want to be able to hotlink, but can't.

If I was to remove the RewriteRule \. (gif|jpg)$ - [F] rule, I believe that I'd no longer be able to prevent hotlinking through the .htaccess file. I just want a way to leave everything but /banners/ the way is now.

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-Dave

Maker of stuff, user of things
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hmm.. Not an expert but can't you override .htaccess in each directory?

What if you dropped a .htaccess file with this in it in the banners dir?

ErrorDocument 404 /404.php







RewriteEngine off

.:[ Never resist a perfect moment ]:.

Figured it out. In the root of the site, here's the .htaccess:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !domain.com/.*$ [NC]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !domain\.com [NC]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !google\. [NC] 

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !search\?q=cache [NC]

RewriteRule    \.(gif|jpe?g|png|psd)$ - [F,NC,L]

For any directory which I want to ignore the root's rules, I drop this .htaccess file into it:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^.*$ -

Thanks much for the assistance.

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-Dave

Maker of stuff, user of things
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