htaccess isn't working

[Amanda]

I'm trying to stop direct linking to certain images on my site, and I've uploaded an .htaccess file, but it's not working, the images can still be direct linked to. I checked with my host to make sure the server supports mod_rewrite and he said yes. So I don't know what's wrong, I've uploaded the .htaccess file to my images folder, but it doesn't work.

This is the code I'm using, I got it from HTML Basix:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}!^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}!^http://(www\.)?domain1.net(/)?.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}!^http://(www\.)?domain2.org(/)?.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(gif¦jpg¦jpeg¦bmp)$ [domain1.net...] [R,NC]

[RammsteinNicCage]

Hi Amanda, let's get the easy question out of the way first: you did replace domain1.net and domain2.org with your own site's domain name, right?

Jennifer

[Amanda]

Yes, I put domain1 and domain2 there myself to abide by the rules of this forum. Oh, and the broken lines are actually supposed to be the straight up and down line.

[monkeythumpa]

How are you testing this? Are you placing a link tag linking to your images on another site, or are you just typing them into your url?

[Amanda]

I went to the page where someone is direct linking to some of my images, and I also went to HTML Basix where they have a place to check to see if images can be hotlinked. I cleared my temp internet files several times also.

[Span]

I'm not sure, but I think the NC flag is not allowed in a RewriteRule.
Also, you have to allow hotlinking to your bandwidth image..

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/images/bandwidth.gif$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?domain1.net(/)?.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?domain2.org(/)?.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(gif¦jpg¦jpeg¦bmp)$ http://www.domain1.net/images/bandwidth.gif [R,L]