Off-Topic HTACCESS Help Needed (Hotlinking)

I have a watermark script that I wrote that will watermark on the fly. I now want to watermark any external image requests. Here is what I added to .htaccess:

Code:

#RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}   !^http://www\.nationofblue\.com/$   [NC]
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
#RewriteRule ^(.*)\.(gif|jpg|png)$ watermark.php?img=$1\.$2   [R]

The problem with this is that any image on my site, not using the full domain, is also watermarked. How do I stop this?

There will always be a referrer....

Make sure you case them all


RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://domain.biz/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://domain.biz$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.domain.biz/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.domain.biz$ [NC]

Hey Brian,

I am not exactly sure what you mean. In this example (which is in my .htaccess above all vbseo directives) I have the the referrer defined:

Code:

#RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www\.nationofblue\.com/$   [NC]
#RewriteRule ^(.*)\.(gif|jpg|png)$ watermark.php?img=$1\.$2   [L]

(of course am not commenting the lines out when testing...)

Code:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://nationofblue.com/.*$      [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://nationofblue.com$      [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.nationofblue.com/.*$      [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.nationofblue.com$      [NC] 						
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.(gif|jpg|png)$ watermark.php?img=$1\.$2   [L]

I'll give it a whirl. Thanks!

Hey Brian,

Ok, that seems to work but I have another problem.

I want to redirect:
http://www.nationofblue.com/uk_ul_rivalry.jpg

to:
http://www.nationofblue.com/watermar...ul_rivalry.jpg

Is the code we're using above correct to do that?

It looks correct... it should catch all images.

Hey Brian,

I appreciate all your help with this but for some reason the redirect is not working.

Basically, I would want:
http://www.nationofblue.com/content/...ne-behanan.jpg

Redirected to:
http://www.nationofblue.com/watermar...ne-behanan.jpg

The watermark.php script works fine but when I uncomment the directives you listed for htaccess all I get is a broken image.

You may need to use the REAL path, not the vbseo'ed path, to the iamge.

Yeah I thought that too. Both examples I have linked above are the real paths to the image though. I am totally stumped here. You would think that would be a simple rewrite.

How could I set it up to rewrite it when I was accessing the image directly in a browser for testing purposes?

Brian,

Could you flag this for Oleg to get his expertise on the rewrite? Something is fundamentally missing as the request is not being redirected to the new URL.

Posting an image for testing purposes.

seems to be working...

Hey Brian,

I just got it working. for the rewrite line, I have to include the full URL. AWESOMENESS!!! Thanks for all your help.