Stop hotlinking on IIS

[digicam]

Hi, I saw a post on preventing hotlinking on Apache web servers, but how do you prevent it if using MS IIS - on a shared account?

any thoughts

cheers

[Staffa]

Check if your host has installed or is willing to install Isapi_Rewrite on the server (or a similar program).

[digicam]

Ok, I can check that - what would I need to do then?

[Staffa]

You will then have a similar file as htaccess available in your root directory where you can write rules to stop bad bots, hotlinking, etc.

However, you cannot copy htaccess rules because the syntax is somewhat different.

[digicam]

Problem I am on a shared server so I amagine that banning IPs would be impossible.

[Staffa]

If you mean by "shared server" the way most of us have a site hosted where we get a slice of the server space for our site, than it still works.

The program is installed on 'the server' and each site gets the use of it individually. Each site has its own httpd.ini file (similar to htaccess) with its own rules so you can ban an IP number or an IP range of numbers just to your site.