Hard htaccess problem...

errorCode30

Hi guys,

i'm having a right problem with this.

I'm basicly tying to make a hotlink protection file.

I need to allow 2 domains:

www.mysite.com
www.google./ig
= .com / .co.uk / .eu / .ch / .anything

Google has lots of extensions, and they all need to be allowed to view my page when after the first / "ig" follows.

So if say www.google.com tried to download a file. It would be blocked.
BUT if www.google.com/ig tried to download, that would be ok.
As would www.google.co.uk/ig

Can anyone help???

many thanks.

bpat1434

Well, the easy part is the regex:

/[www]?.mysite.com./i
/[www]?.google.[^\/]\/ig/i

Then, If it matches them allow, if not, then use a 403 or whatever...

errorCode30

Can you please tell me how you learn all the code that goes into htaccess files?

It lookslike nothing i understand. not like php, or c, or anything!

Thanks thanks for the help bpat, i'll look into that when i get home.

Cheers.

Roger_Ramjet

Guide to htaccess

And of course the Apache Manual

bpat1434

Well, for one, I've been using Apache for around 10 years now. So I learned through time just how things were done. Like the .htpasswd file took me around 4 months to grasp (my brother showed me how eventually).

As for what I wrote, it's just simple RegEx. If you google for RegEx or Regular Expressions, a slew of sites will pop up. It's a typical syntax. It's also explained in the Apache manual for .htaccess files.

Other than searching on Google for RegEx (because who knows what delivery of info will work for you) and the above links to by Roger, there's really no other places to learn about what can go into a .htaccess file.