WordPress and .htaccess

[NY Jester]

I know there have been threads about hotlink protection etc. using .htaccess.

But I thought htaccess in WP was a bit different

Anyway. The question at hand is this. How do I stop hotlinking post images from my blogs. And more so, how do I replace the hotlinked image with another image with say just the blog URL on it?

Thanks in advance.

[Beaver Bob]

htaccess should be no different on wordpress than any other site.. the only thing is you need this code for your permalinks to work

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

now for the hotlinking, this page will generate what you need:
http://www.htaccesstools.com/hotlink-protection/

[NY Jester]

Would I put the .htaccess file in the blog directory

ex: http://www.myblog.com/blog/ would I put the htaccess in the /blog/ directory?

Thanks

[Beaver Bob]

Originally Posted by NY Jester

Would I put the .htaccess file in the blog directory

ex: http://www.myblog.com/blog/ would I put the htaccess in the /blog/ directory?

Thanks

The htaccess code for your permalinks go in the /blog directory

So the question is, do you want hotlink protection on the entire domain or just the blog?

If you want to protect outside /blog, the hotlink protection code would go in its own .htaccess file located in the root of the domain.

If you are only concerned with protecting whats inside the blog directory, you can add the hotlink protection code to your existing .htaccess in /blog

[NY Jester]

it appears right now that the only images being hotlinked are from the blog, so I guess ill just update the htaccess in the blog directory.

Thanks

[walrus]

Are they being hotlinked or are they being picked up as a part of your RSS feed? If there is a specific person / website / IP by all means stop them from hot linking your stuff.

But don't shoot yourself in the foot by disabling one of your most valuable marketing tools, your RSS feed.

[NY Jester]

They are being hot linked by 1 or two sites...should I just let them go for now? I mean its forum traffic, and its not eating too much BW..also if someone checks the location it would be somewhat of a free advert possibly?

[walrus]

If it's not eating a bunch of band width, I'd probably let it go. If it's a problem try contacting the forum owners.

The forum hot links usually only last for the life of the post.

[balls_deep]

another option is to watermark your photos with your domain name in the corner, this is basically free advertisement.