Q to LL owners about hot linking

Jel · 2005-03-28, 01:48 AM

hi trey,
Looks like the problem is that the rewrite rule is trying to put a html page in an image spot. You need to create an image to appear in place of the hotlinked one. My advice is to create a banner with your url written out with click here to visit the site this image was taken from or something to that effect. Bit of an awkward one, as it's going to appear on a freesite(s), but if nothing else it should alert the other LLs on that recip table to the fact he is hotlinking, and when he eventually clears his cache he'll realise what's happened.
Could be he's just too new to know better, although that doesn't excuse it of course.
Also, you'll need to put the hotlink image in a seperate folder, and have a rule to allow that image to be hotlinked, otherwise the anti-hotlink rule will cause the red x to appear.

Thumbler · 2005-03-28, 09:30 AM

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Originally Posted by cfnmparty

hi trey,
Could be he's just too new to know better, although that doesn't excuse it of course.

The domain was registered in August 2002... and the whois looks extremely iffy to me

Trey4u, check the allowoverrides in your virtual directory, it's possible your .htaccess isn't being read

2005-03-28, 01:48 AM	#1
Jel I'm the only guy in the world who has to wake up to have a nightmare Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: London, United Kingdom Posts: 1,895	hi trey, Looks like the problem is that the rewrite rule is trying to put a html page in an image spot. You need to create an image to appear in place of the hotlinked one. My advice is to create a banner with your url written out with click here to visit the site this image was taken from or something to that effect. Bit of an awkward one, as it's going to appear on a freesite(s), but if nothing else it should alert the other LLs on that recip table to the fact he is hotlinking, and when he eventually clears his cache he'll realise what's happened. Could be he's just too new to know better, although that doesn't excuse it of course. Also, you'll need to put the hotlink image in a seperate folder, and have a rule to allow that image to be hotlinked, otherwise the anti-hotlink rule will cause the red x to appear.