Sometimes, some people link directly to images in your host. This people is robbering you bandwidth. To avoid this only have to write some code lines in your .htaccess file in your host root:



There is another thing you can do. You can also show an image you want instead linked images. So the people that has been robbering you bandwidth will take a surprise. Just ad this to code:



I hope you enjoy this.

 

 

 

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Here at the Trap17, once you are Hosted, you can also use the Hotlink Protection in the Cpanel to do this same thing.
Similar to the Tutorial, you specify the domain names which you allow to link to your Images.
Nice Tutorial, though. Short and sweet.

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Ya that is always a good idea to keep people from robbing you of your bandwidth. I think if people want to view things they should go to your site to view them so you can maybe get a few more customers out of it or visitors atleast. I don't really have a reason to do this though at the moment but I like the idea.

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this is the great tutorial .thanks a lot.

the one thing that I don't understand is this code


Do I need to change the link in that code?
If I have to change the link there.How can I change it.

Anyway thanks for the great tutorial.

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I don't like to restrict images to certain referals, since some people block referals or change the referal fields to "google.com" or something... which means pictures on your site will appear as whatever you don't want...

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If you have a good knowledge of .htaccess files and PHP, then you could probably make a message appear asking them to use their normal referer.

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I still find it as a neat little tool, especialy if your not hosting through Trap17. Thanks for the post.

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Thank you jlhaslip, i didn't know that feature. Really, I have never had to use these tricks, but it's a good idea to keep people from robbing you of your bandwidth.

Usually, people who do this are people who begin blogging and who don't know that they are making something bad.

Ok, the code would have to be:



or maybe just:

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.htaccess method works great if you do not have cPanel or any other similar app where you can manage hotlinking protection.

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A great tutorial. It's always nice to have the ability to be able to keep control of the bandwidth without using the cpanel hotlink protection, whether it be because the server doesn't support it (this certainly isn't the case with trap17) or because for whatever reason the user doesn't want to bother with hotlink protection (I don't really know why this would be the case though).

If I ever end up without a hotlink protection in a cpanel, I will almost certainly use this code for the htaccess, as it will ensure that no-one else can consume all of my bandwidth.

Thanks for sharing.

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