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[edited by: Receptional at 4:29 pm (utc) on Mar. 24, 2006]
[edit reason] de-linked [/edit]
ht%p://profile.myspace.com/index.cf is the URL of every user's profile, so probably multiple users are linking to my images from their profile, explaining the 43%.
Too bad I can't see who's linking, because I find myspace blogs terribly amusing, especially if they have my images.
Thank you for your input.
I'm sorry, I don't quite get it. Do you put your URL in the ALT tag?
I just add the text onto the image in the bottom corner or something using photoshop. I rename the original file on my site so that the image is unaltered for my visitors and just the hotlinked image shows the URL text.
crak_bot you might want to re-think your "advertising" idea. Might cause MySpacers to flock to your site and hotlink to your images. Could turn a minor nuisance into a major problem.
Why a major problem? Bandwidth is very inexpensive nowadays.
Because MySpace has 69,093,144 members. Of course if you have something that interests them on your site it might work to your benefit (now that I think about it).
You could always try to use search on myspace.com for the HTML code. The company is also really good about allowing you to report copyrighted images, whether or not they're on your server.
If it really bugs you, change the image into a billboard instead. Myspace is the number one source of incoming traffic to my pages.
Jon
[edited by: Woz at 2:34 am (utc) on April 9, 2006]
[edit reason] No SIGs please, see TOS#13 [/edit]
People still hotlink but all they get is the red square of nothingness.
[webmasterworld.com...]
But it's pretty simple, and I'm very web-illiterate
copy this text, insert your domain name where it says "yourdomain", paste it into a notepad document and save it as .htacess (it will save as a .txt file). Upload it to your root directory and get rid of the ".txt" extension on the name of it and that should work.
You'll still see stuff in your raw logs but when you go to the hotlinked page your picture won't be there and you won't be as heavily penalized for it if it were a jpeg or other large file.
good luck!
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}!^http://(www\.)?yourdomain\.com/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}!^$
RewriteRule \.(jpe?g¦gif¦bmp¦png)$ - [F]
MySpace visitors directly wont come to your website as they are unaware of hotlinking images. The solution is, just make an image with your website URL and two to three words describing it and serve this leech image to all those direct hotlinking requests.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}!^http://(www\.)?yourdomain\.com/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}!^$
RewriteRule \.(jpe?g¦gif¦bmp¦png)$ - /leech.gif [NC,L]
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}!^http://(www\.)?yourdomain\.com/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}!^$
RewriteRule \.(jpe?g¦gif¦bmp¦png)$ - [F]
Would I be correct in assuming that you can throw in wmv as well? That's where bandwidth really becomes an issue.
innocbystr, yes you can stop hotlinking of WMV files too. Just change the last line of the RewriteRule.
RewriteRule \.(wmv¦avi¦mpeg)$ - [F]
while the pictures still aren't showing on the other sites, neither is the logo though, am i doing something wrong or on some sites will it not work because of some configuration problems?
one site has hotlinked like 12 of my pics, each with a different name like:
/pic/john/mark.jpg
it's not showing them but it's not showing the logo either... it's not a huge deal but i'd love to have my logo show up instead of hotlinked images...
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}!^http://(www\.)?mysite\.com/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}!^$
RewriteRule \.(jpe?g¦gif¦bmp¦png)$ - /leech.gif [NC,L]
I just realized that it was stopping my website from showing at all though! My site was offline and giving an error message all evening...!
My site was offline and giving an error message all evening...!
1). By the rule \.(jpe?g¦gif¦bmp¦png)$ you are making an infinite loop for leech.gif file. The solution is to pick any one of the image file extension which you rarely use in your website and remove it from the hot linking rule i.e. if you have leech.gif then your rewrite rule should not contain gif -> \.(jpe?g¦bmp¦png)$.
2). The other solution is to add the following line to your htaccess to protect all image extensions.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}!^/leech.gif$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}!^http://(www\.)?mysite\.com/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}!^$
RewriteRule \.(jpe?g¦gif¦bmp¦png)$ /leech.gif [NC,L]
NOTE : Please change the broken pipe "¦" character with a solid pipe before using the above codes as posting on this forum modifies that character and i presume this is the reason why your site was down. Also there is a space between } and ! on each line.
I did your first suggestion and got rid of gif and left /leech.gif and it works!
the only thing is that if i have two windows open, the hotlinked image on the other site and my page that has my picture on it it shows my logo on my site's page instead of the correct picture.
when i close the other hotlinked page, the picture returns to normal on my computer?!
strange? Or normal... it doesn't seem to affect any other pictures on my computer
Yes I think they are referrer spams ... I had the same problem few days ago... They just want to attarct vidsitors to their site. Best thing is not to open log summaries to outside...Only this you can do is exclude that ip from the software (or whatever the mechanism you used to analyse the log) beside that there's nothing much you can do abbout that...
Cheers,
Akila
