Configuring apache to disable bandwidth stealing

Mig21 · 11-11-2008, 08:53 PM

Hi

In the last month my server uploaded over 10G of images via websites that include images from my server. I'd like to stop that

I'm running apache2 on Slackware 12. I have mod_rewrite enabled.

I've tried following http://www.besthostratings.com/artic...t-linking.html but it doesn't work so well.

Here are the contents of my htdocs/misc/testimageblock/.htaccess:

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}  !^-$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}  !^http://(www.)?littlesvr.ca.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|png)$ http://littlesvr.ca/misc/not-hosted-here.png [F]

I can get to it via:

http://littlesvr.ca/misc/testimagebl...spose-none.png

but not via:
http://www.littlesvr.ca/misc/testima...spose-none.png (this is not what i want)
http://cdot.senecac.on.ca/projects/toaster/2.html (this is not exactly what i want, the replacement image isn't shown)

And I keep seing 200 responses for images from http://www.fretsonfire...wherever

So I guess it doesn't work

Help, anyone?

teknik · 11-12-2008, 02:32 PM

well for starters you'll want to take the [F] out of there. That will just cause a 403 to be returned, instead of your false image. Also I'm not sure about the "-" in your first RewriteCond, but then again I'm not overly experienced with this...

Anyway, try this:

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}  !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}  !^http://(www.)?littlesvr.ca/(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|png)$ http://littlesvr.ca/misc/not-hosted-here.png [T=image/png]

Mig21 · 11-12-2008, 08:00 PM

Yay, it works now! Thanks a lot teknik!

Final version:

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}  !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}  !^http://(www.)?littlesvr.ca/(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|png)$ http://littlesvr.ca/misc/not-hosted-here.png