Hello,

these are great forums, I have enjoyed browsing and have decided to sign up, unfortunately for my first post to be a question.

I have been searching how to stop certain domains from hotlinking with htaccess. I have come across scripts/tutorials which show how to prevent hotlinking from all sites or only from allowed sites. Neither of these are pratical for me as I own a toplist . What i want to do is block a domain(s) from hotlinking from my site. For example www.stupidsite.com hotlinks a image from my site, I would want to stop that image althogether from loading on that site or be swapped for another (horrible ) picture.

I would really appreciate your help, thanks in advance.

This is from http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html

Description:
How can we program a flexible URL Deflector which acts on the "Referer" HTTP header and can be configured with as many referring pages as we like?

Solution:
Use the following really tricky ruleset...

RewriteMap deflector txt:/path/to/deflector.map

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !=""
RewriteCond ${deflector:%{HTTP_REFERER}} ^-$
RewriteRule ^.* %{HTTP_REFERER} [R,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !=""
RewriteCond ${deflector:%{HTTP_REFERER}|NOT-FOUND} !=NOT-FOUND
RewriteRule ^.* ${deflector:%{HTTP_REFERER}} [R,L]

... in conjunction with a corresponding rewrite map:

##
## deflector.map
##

http://www.badguys.com/bad/index.html -
http://www.badguys.com/bad/index2.html -
http://www.badguys.com/bad/index3.html http://somewhere.com/

This automatically redirects the request back to the referring page (when "-" is used as the value in the map) or to a specific URL (when an URL is specified in the map as the second argument).