.htaccess for hotlink protection

I want to enable hotlink protection for my server. I was thinking of enabling it from cPanel but since i currently have a .htaccess it may mess with my vbseo settings.

Is the following .htaccess correct ? and do you advice me to change any settings ?

Code:

# Comment the following line (add '#' at the beginning)
# to disable mod_rewrite functions.
# Please note: you still need to disable the hack in
# the vBSEO control panel to stop url rewrites.
RewriteEngine On

# Some servers require the Rewritebase directive to be
# enabled (remove '#' at the beginning to activate)
# Please note: when enabled, you must include the path
# to your root vB folder (i.e. RewriteBase /forums)

RewriteRule ^(sitemap.*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} (admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1 [L]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !vbseourl=
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !chat
RewriteRule ^(.*\.php)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

RewriteRule ^(archive/.*)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://ayyas.com.*$     [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.ayyas.com.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://october.ayyas.com.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(gif|GIF|jpg|JPG|mpg|MPG|wmv|WMV|jpeg|JPEG|avi|AVI|rar|RAR|zip|ZIP)$        http://www.ayyas.com/images/warning.gif                  [L,R]

Add your warning image in too, or it could get into a loop I think.

Here's what I use:

Code:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://.*fireblades\.org.*$ [NC] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https://.*fireblades\.org.*$ [NC] 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  !^.*leech\.gif$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*\.(swf|bmp|gif|jpg|png|jpeg|avi|wmv|mpg|mpeg|wav|mp3)$ http://www.fireblades.org/images/leech.gif [NC,R,L]

Thanks

Conqsoft i placed this .htaccess in my public_html dir which is as same as my forum dir but this doesn't effect the folders like public_html/galeri/ i had to manually add this to the folders i wanted to get protected.

This is the whole .htaccess i have in my public_html

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(sitemap.*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} (admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1 [L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !vbseourl=
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !chat
RewriteRule ^(.*\.php)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(archive/.*)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://.*ayyas\.com.*$ [NC] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https://.*ayyas\.com.*$ [NC] 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  !^.*warning\.gif$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*\.(swf|bmp|gif|jpg|png|jpeg|avi|wmv|mpg|mpeg|wav|mp3|rar|zip|JPG|GIF|Jpg|RAR|ZIP|Rar|Zip])$ http://www.ayyas.com/images/warning.gif [NC,R,L]

is there any way to exclude any specific domain ? like only mysite.com can hotlink all the contents frm mysite.org, but any other sites cant..

Originally Posted by Lizard King

Conqsoft i placed this .htaccess in my public_html dir which is as same as my forum dir but this doesn't effect the folders like public_html/galeri/ i had to manually add this to the folders i wanted to get protected.

This is the whole .htaccess i have in my public_html

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(sitemap.*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} (admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1 [L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !vbseourl=
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !chat
RewriteRule ^(.*\.php)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(archive/.*)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://.*ayyas\.com.*$ [NC] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https://.*ayyas\.com.*$ [NC] 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  !^.*warning\.gif$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*\.(swf|bmp|gif|jpg|png|jpeg|avi|wmv|mpg|mpeg|wav|mp3|rar|zip|JPG|GIF|Jpg|RAR|ZIP|Rar|Zip])$ http://www.ayyas.com/images/warning.gif [NC,R,L]

Do you have .htaccess files in the /galleri/ directory?

(Before adding the code to them I mean)...

This is what I am trying as my .htaccess file in my forum directory and it is not working. Any ideas?

Code:

# Comment the following line (add '#' at the beginning)
# to disable mod_rewrite functions.
# Please note: you still need to disable the hack in
# the vBSEO control panel to stop url rewrites.
RewriteEngine On

# Some servers require the Rewritebase directive to be
# enabled (remove '#' at the beginning to activate)
# Please note: when enabled, you must include the path
# to your root vB folder (i.e. RewriteBase /forums)
#RewriteBase /

#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.yourdomain\.com
#RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !vbseourl=
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !(admincp/|modcp/|chat|cron)
RewriteRule ^(.*\.php)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !\.(jpg|gif)$
RewriteRule ^(archive/.*)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://.*atlanticanglers\.com.*$ [NC] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https://.*atlanticanglers\.com.*$ [NC] 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  !^.*leech\.gif$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*\.(swf|bmp|gif|jpg|png|jpeg|avi|wmv|mpg|mpeg|wav|mp3)$ http://www.atlanticanglers.com/images/leech.gif [NC,R,L]

Okay, I put the same .htaccess file in the root directory and it worked fine with the rest of the site, but the forum doesn't seem to be working.