Posted by Blinky the Shark on 01/29/07 18:19

Jonathan N. Little wrote:
> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>> Toby A Inkster wrote:
>>> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>>>
>>>> What I did was comment out a line in .htaccess:
>>>>
>>>> #RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp)$ - [F,NC]
>>> What this line means is:
>>>
>>> For any file that ends with any of these:
>>>
>>> .jpg
>>> .jpeg
>>> .gif
>>> .png
>>> .bmp
>>>
>>> then forbid access.
>>
>> Holy cats. I can't imagine where that came from. It's not, like,
>> something I'd want to do. :)
>>
>> Is there any chance that's something that, say, cPanel might do if one
>> were to enable hot-link blocking? Like perhaps it would only apply to
>> image requests that didn't come from within the site?
>>
>> I seem to have an .htaccess in my images directory, as well.
>>
> There probably was a preceding line with a RewriteCond statement that
> test if the host is your domain name.
>
> # IF referring is not "mydomain.com"
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?mydomain.com/.*$ [NC]
>
> Since you have an new domain your are testing you need to allow it... or
> remove the rule entirely...

Here's that part of my .htaccecss (the one in my document root:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://blinkynet.net/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://blinkynet.net$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.blinkynet.net/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.blinkynet.net$ [NC]
#RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp)$ - [F,NC]

Looks sensible?

There's none of that in the .htaccess that's in my images subdirectory,
and since there are lines like AddHandler and DefaultCharset in that one
I sense it's a file that simply got mis-saved to the wrong place.
Agree?

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