Hotlink Protection

NappyHead

I've been using hotlink protection through this htaccess code.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://([^.]+\.)?mysite\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !google\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !search\?q=cache [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/hotlink\.png$
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg)$ /hotlink.png [NC,L]

It works properly and prevents hotlinking from ALL image directories on my server.

How can I tell it to allow hotlinking from a couple of directories that I designate?

for example, I'd like to ALLOW hotlinking at the following URLs:

mysite.com/downloads/

and

mysite.com/photos/

It this isn't the place to discuss these types of issues, could someone direct me to a good site that covers this? I've tried Google searching for an answer but I've been unsuccessful.

Thanks

Enlightened

As far as i know you can use .htaccess in each directory, So you wouldnt want hotlink protection off the main directory. Just in the designated ones. You can use php to check the referer and if it isnt the server refering, display a message...

Heres an example

	$page = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];


if (!ereg($page, $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']))
{
	echo "invalid referer";
}

NappyHead

Enlightened wrote:
As far as i know you can use .htaccess in each directory, So you wouldnt want hotlink protection off the main directory. Just in the designated ones. You can use php to check the referer and if it isnt the server refering, display a message...

Heres an example
	$page = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];


if (!ereg($page, $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']))
{
	echo "invalid referer";
} 

Thanks, that helped.