Allow remote linking from a single location

**HarmonWorks** · 05-06-2003, 01:05 PM

Hey all, this one has me stumped. I am having a tough time controling the remote linking of images.

I know I can turn off the remote linking in general, but I don't want to do that. I am hosting some images that need the remote link.

Is there a way that I can turn it off, but with exceptions from certain domains and sub domains?

**Raven** · 05-06-2003, 01:31 PM

Using htaccess and mod-rewrite should do the trick. I havent really worked with this myself but Ive got a couple of links bookmarked that might help you out.

http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess10.shtml
http://faq.solutionscripts.com/misc/hot_linking.html

**HarmonWorks** · 05-06-2003, 02:01 PM

OKay...I knew I could totally block the linking and that I could put up a single image to replace whatever image they originally wanted.

But...if I wanted to allow the images to be viewed on *certain* specific domains, can I simply add a line to this?

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://your_domain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.your_domain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(gif|GIF|jpg|JPG)$ - [F]

such as

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http:/allowed_domain.com/.*$ [NC]

Would that work?