My own version of dysfunctional .htaccess rewrite rules
 

Here's mine

This is, of course, an attempt to prevent hotlinking image-files. I reduced the authentic .htaccess content to these lines for simplicity. But they still to not have an effect. In the draft for a blog-post on LQ, for example, I can freely link to any image files on my web-site and they will be displayed.

I am not insisting on the fact that, a few years back, when I first used a .htaccess file, I managed to prevent hotlinks this way. It probably lured me into thinking that I had understood the stuff.

I clearly do not and probably will never. Maybe point me at the error in the above code and I just try to get along...

TY.

Hi Michael,

You may try the apache official mod_rewrite ways to avoid image hotlinking

Regards

Thank you bathry.

Of course, I cannot say, why this documentation would be better than all the others that I have scrutinized in the meantime, but I will copy&paste these code-examples, too, just to see what happens. I will report back in any case, but I am coughing too much tonight and have different interests for the next days.

Nope.

The differences between the proposed rules from apache.org and my own are negligible but I tried them anyway. With the same result, that hotlinking images from my site is still possible and the sought redirection to an alternate image is not done.

I suppose that the Web-Server is quite simply lacking a capability but do not yet have any answers from the administrators.

The rules should work.
Perhaps apache does not read .htaccess files. Check if you have a AllowOverride ... directive in apache config file(s)
You need at least a
for rewrite rules to work from inside a .htaccess file.

Regards

I think I informed the people who live closer to the server in question, but have not had any specific reaction. For me, the thread is closed, but not [Solved].