How do I...
 

How do I setup .htaccess to redirect foreign bandwidth thieves and send them somewhere else? I'm getting pounded by some useless traffic which is eating up some serious bandwidth.

Cheers.

You probably need what DrBizzaro is looking for :)
http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/...threadid=15325

Yeah...I saw that already, thanks. I'm not really looking to geo redirect ~ more like banning a domain from sending traffic.

HTH

http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/...ght=modrewrite
http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/...ght=modrewrite

DD

I found this in a folder of web clippings that I keep.

I haven't tried it myself. It looks like PHP code to me so I would guess that the page needs the php extension.

$user_lan = $HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE;

/******
language code | language
------------------------------------
ar | Arabic
cs | Czech
da | Danish
de | German
el | Greek
en | English
es | Spanish
fi | Finnish
fr | French
hu | Hungarian
it | Italian
jp | Japanese
nl | Dutch
no | Norwegian
pl | Polish
pt | Portuguese
ro | Romanian
ru | Russian
sr | (Latin) Serbian
sv | Swedish
th | Thai
tr | Turkish
zh | simplified Chinese
zh-tw | traditional Chinese
*********/

if($user_lan=='fr') {
## French
$redir_url = "http://www.frenchsponsor.com";

} elseif($user_lan=='es') {
## Spanish
$redir_url = "http://www.spanishsponsor.com";

} elseif($user_lan=='de') {
## German
$redir_url = "http://www.germansponsor.com";

} elseif($user_lan=='it') {
## Italian
$redir_url = "http://www.italiansponsor.com";

} elseif($user_lan=='ar') {
## Other Non-Us Languages
$redir_url = "http://www.othersponsor.com";

## US traffic or Rest of world not defined above
} else {
$redir_url = "http://www.yourmainurl.com";

}

header("Location: $redir_url");
exit;

?>

EXPLAINING THE ABOVE
I listed as many country codes as I could but I left out a few that I couldn't
find. I know UK is not on there but I believe that one to be 'en-uk'...Anyway
basically you can redirect surfers from ANY country to the URL of your choice,
and just let the US surfers through to your webpages.

RE : 'I'm not really looking to geo redirect' Maybe you should look into this, there is a lot of money to be made sending non-English speaking surfers to sponsors who run sites in their language. I used to get a lot of Asian traffic dumped on one of the sites I ran link exchanges with. I started sending it to a sponsor that sold to Japan, China Korea, etc and was making almost as much money from that as I was from the English speaking surfers to that site. Oh, and my method of redirect was simple. Little 80 X 60 buttons with each country's flag on it, the surfer had to click on the flag to go to the sponsor. If I was using something more advanced I would probably have made more money from the Asian traffic than from the English speaking traffic.

Thanks for the links DD.
Cleo ~ I'll save that snippet of code for future endeavours.
ecchi ~ I did think about that but I thought I'd use the traffic as a boost to a new tgp and help get trades going etc.