Redirect external referrals only

to a specific directory

[cfe_admin]

I'm trying to use mod rewrite to redirect anyone referred from a different site for a specific directory. So, for example, from:

[mydomain.com...]

to:

[mydomain.com...]

This needs to happen ONLY for people directed from off site. I tried modifying some hot-link-blocking code to accomplish this as follows:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}!^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}!^http://(www\\.)?mydomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*thisfolder.* [mydomain.com...] [R,L]

No luck, any thoughts? Thanks!

[jdMorgan]

The code contained several errors that may have prevented it from working, as well as several inefficiencies. This is the danger of using code that you've copied and don't understand.

Try:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?mydomain\.com [NC]
RewriteRule thisfolder http://www.example.com/tohere.php [R,L]

For more information, see the documents cited in our forum charter [webmasterworld.com] and the tutorials in the Apache forum section of the WebmasterWorld library [webmasterworld.com].

Jim