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Astrit Shuli
Astrit Shuli

Reputation: 657

How to prevent hotlinking only for specific website using .htaccess

I want to be able to prevent hotlinking and show a specific image only for some domains. I have tried this method but this prevent all sites from hotlinking using .htaccess

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?example.com/.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?example.com$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(.+\.)?example\.com/ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png|webp)$ https://image.example/img/logo.jpg [R=301,L]

My question is: Lets say for example my website is: example.com and I want to prevent hotlinking only for this specific domain: domain-name.example. How can I modify the code above in order to prevent only that specific domain from hotlinking?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 341

Answers (1)

Stephen Ostermiller
Stephen Ostermiller

Reputation: 25494

You would put that domain name into a rewrite condition that doesn't have the negation (!). It would look something like this:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http(s)?://(www\.)?domain-name.example(/.*)?$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png|webp)$ https://image.example/img/logo.jpg [R=301,L]

Using (/.*)? in this rule means "an optional URL path". Either it ends without the slash, or it has the slash followed by anything else. This effectively combines two of your rewrite conditions.

Upvotes: 1

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