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I found this guy hotlinking images from one of my tgps.

I used .htaccess so he can show the thumbs but when you click on one you go to a avs site of mine.

Can I do this to block him without getting in trouble with the legitmate tgp sites I've submitted to?

Or what else can I do to block this asshole.

I checked his tgp and he is hot linking other people's image too.|knockout|

Sorry, I forgot to post the url:

http://www.kookix.com/sexe-gratuit/g...2004-01-19.htm

|pissed|

I clicked on the thumbs & got the full size images, so your htaccess isn't working :(

Don't be fancy about it - put the htaccess in the root & don't allow any images to be accessed from other domains :)

What .htaccess are you using and where? Can you post the code so we can see what's going wrong?

First check that your host has the Apache Module mod_rewrite installed.

If they have, there are a couple of ways of making this work properly, you may just have slightly the wrong syntax.

Tech support should be able to give you all the info you need.

The site in question is hosted in Germany by abovenet.de in case you are interested in contacting them about their client. European hosts are a little easier to deal with legally.

I removed the .htaccess because these images are on a tgp page.

Wouldn't using .htaccess block the tgp sites scripts that check to make sure the images are there and so on?

I don't want to get into trouble with the tgp sites.

Thanks for your help.

How many tgp sites are you currently live on?

I submitted that to about 35 tgp sites.

Have you tried using this code?

order allow,deny
deny from kookix.com
allow from all

I just copied and pasted that into an .htaccess file and it didn't seem to work.

How did you find out that his host is abovenet.de?

I did a whois and got some other host company without any legit contact info...of course.

If you trace route the site it resolves in Germany.

1 23 ms 27 ms 32 ms 216.26.128.225 kenny.fe-0-0-0.sdf.xodiax.net. 252 UNITED STATES Unix: 18:26:11.739
2 29 ms 34 ms 39 ms 65.117.168.137 chi-edge-09.inet.qwest.net. 251 UNITED STATES Unix: 18:26:11.790
3 30 ms 59 ms 59 ms 205.171.20.125 chi-core-03.inet.qwest.net. 250 UNITED STATES Unix: 18:26:11.839
4 28 ms 32 ms 37 ms 205.171.220.62 chp-brdr-01.inet.qwest.net. 250 UNITED STATES Unix: 18:26:11.913
5 30 ms 34 ms 39 ms 64.125.12.149 so-4-1-0.mpr2.ord7.us.mfnx.net. 248 UNITED STATES Unix: 18:26:11.958
6 30 ms 34 ms 39 ms 64.125.30.146 so-1-0-0.cr1.ord2.us.above.net. 247 UNITED STATES Unix: 18:26:12. 20
7 40 ms 51 ms 59 ms 64.125.31.45 so-6-0-0.cr1.dca2.us.above.net. 243 UNITED STATES Unix: 18:26:12. 81
8 122 ms 130 ms 139 ms 64.125.31.185 so-6-0-0.cr1.lhr3.uk.above.net. 242 UNITED STATES Unix: 18:26:12.271
9 120 ms 130 ms 139 ms 64.125.31.130 pos12-0.cr1.cdg2.fr.above.net. 242 UNITED STATES Unix: 18:26:12.420
10 120 ms 130 ms 139 ms 208.184.231.205 pos0-2.er1a.cdg2.fr.above.net. 241 UNITED STATES Unix: 18:26:12.572
11 120 ms 139 ms 129 ms 62.4.72.189
[Reached Destination]62.4.72.189.not.updated.abovenet.de. 49 GERMANY Unix: 18:41:14. 38

But the IP does say France.

If you are gonna complain, don't complain to GDB-HOST.COM, coz that's probably the same guy who's sucking your pics.

Can the TGP's in question identify that you are using htaccess like this?

AuthUserFile /dev/null
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
RewriteEngine on
RewriteOptions inherit
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://.*domain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://.*domain.com.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://00.00.00.00/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://00.00.00.00.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*[Jj][Pp][Ee]*[Gg]$|.*[Gg][Ii][Ff]$ /index.html [R,L]

Or is there a chance of them banning you for protecting your own bandwidth?

I don't know, I've did a search here on tgp and htaccess and it seems that I can use it.

I was under the impression that the scripts that tgp sites use wouldn't be able to read my images.

I put the htaccess in place and am thinking about emailing the hosting company now that I know who they are.

Thanks for all your help.

|peace|

There's usually some tgp people floating around the board.... maybe ask the question on the TGP forum, just to make totally sure.

Your thumbs should not be loading since that domain should not be in you good domain list.

Go near the bottom of this page for the htaccess that I use.
http://www.cleos-porn-links.com/adul...ster-help.html

This is what one of my htaccess files looks like
http://cleogoodstuff.com/htaccess.txt

If you organize your domain, like I do, you can eliminate a lot of these problems and still allow limited hotlinking, such as for pic posts, tgps that require thumbs, etc.

I always have one folder for ALL my images, be they banners, content or whatever. In there I place one .htaccess file that disallows linking from anywhere BUT that particular domain. Problem solved.

In my domains root I use another .htaccess to block site suckers and other undesirables.

I have my own server, tho, so this may or may not be an acceptable solution for those on virtual hosting.

MrMagoo. I post a lot of tgp's too. If you're still interessed, here is the htaccess I use (in the root):

ErrorDocument 401 /error.htm
ErrorDocument 403 http://abesbeauties.com/e403/index.htm
ErrorDocument 404 /error.htm
ErrorDocument 408 /error.htm
ErrorDocument 500 /error.htm

Options -Indexes

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://abesbeauties.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.abesbeauties.com [NC]
RewriteRule .\.(mpg|mpeg|avi|jpg|gif)$ - [F,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^.*DOMAIN-I-DONT-WANT.com/.*$ [NC]
ReWriteRule .* http://PAYSITE-URL-WITH-MYSPONSORCODE [R,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Wget.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^AbachoBOT.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Email.Extractor.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebReaper.*$
RewriteRule /* - [F,L]

I don't have any problems with tgp's as I don't redirect their traffic on the galleries.
What I do is redirect hotlinkers and a few domains (like the DOMAIN-I-DONT-WANT).
The latter domain is of course not a tgp domain :). But galleries often get picked up by for instance non-english sites that sucks your bw without any change of return.
Hotlinkers goes to a little popup-hell with a few popunders. That domains I don't want goes directly to a paysite (bad ratio, but I make money from them). But you must be sure that the paysite accepts this kind of redirect (I think not all does).
I have been thinking a lot of that whether it was unethical or not. But my conclusion was that this is a legal form of self-defence :)

Urb. I don't think that tgp scripts can read htaccess'es like this. But I have 2 tgp's whom script's say they find a 302 on my gallery (and there isn't). I immediately thought on my htaccess and toke it down. But they still found that 302.

Cleo. I didn't thank you before. But I toke that 'Options -Indexes' from a post of you on this board in another thread. This is a real time savier. Much easier and safer then all these dummy index.html's.