Can somebody help me figure out why these chinese forums link to me
 

I think these are all chinese forums that link to my newly built website. Can somebody tell me what the hell are they doing sending me their worthless traffic?


1 343682 11.88% - (Direct Request)
2 74745 2.58% http://www.mimibbs.org/viewthread.php
3 24332 0.84% http://bbs.m6mm.com/read.php
4 14829 0.51% http://www.bitgirl.org/bbs/read.php
5 14302 0.49% http://bbs.m6mm.net/read.php

they are probably hotlinking your images.

Hit the link up top that says FAQ, and one of the answers deals with anti-hotlinking rules that you can install.

Pure hotlinking. .htaccess them out of your life. That many hits means they have linked ALL of your content.

Alex

Shit but what do i do about wmv?

Also this is a fake TGP so I dont know how much content they could have hotlinked

You can deny just about anything and let only the ref you want to be able to get your stuff. This is a pretty intense site to edit your htaccess, be very careful as you can totally screw shit up. I know last week I had something changed and my host did something wrong and it was not good. But I would recommend studying up on it as it is a very powerful tool.
http://bitesizeinc.net/demo.htaccesser.html

"Put this file in your web site directory. It will protect the files in the current directory and below. The above rules only protect against .gif & .jpg files being hotlinked. .wmv files cannot easily be protected because Windows Media Player doesn't send a valid referrer. You can .zip your wmv files and protect the .zip files. "

Thats what I see in the docs and when I test I could access my wmv no prob is there another way to protect them without zipping?

Thanks

Honestly I would love to tell you yes I have the answer, but I really don't. htaccess is some really cool, but also crazy shit. I would start looking around on some of the apache forums for more expert advice on them. When I rack my brain I don't see an easy fix for you as the file links are already out there and blocking by ip or domain name might not fix this. Either way I would still block them but being the link is floating in the web you may be forced to move your files to a differant directory and and run a find/replace on all the sites files to fix this. I realy cant say either way. Sorry..

Heres one I just found. Not sure if this works or not just did a google on htaccess and wmv
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Protecting your images
If you have a large amount of images on your site someone might decide to link to them and pass it off as their content. Adding this code to your .htaccess will stop them cold in their tracks. On top of that it will redirect the surfer who clicks on their download link to whatever page you wish. The code to put in your .htaccess:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?example\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://YOURIPADDRESS
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|jpeg|bmp|png|mpg|mpeg|avi|wmv|mov|asf)$ - [F]
The first "RewriteCond" line specifies that if there is no referrer, that's ok. The second "RewriteCond" specifies that if there is a referrer, it needs to be your domain name. The third line is an additional catch to allow you to use your IP address as well. The "RewriteRule" line denies anyone who breaks the above rules while trying to get a file that ends with one of the listed extensions.

Scratch that last post. Just found a a couple of forums saying no go on the video file protecting. Some are posting this same code but some are saying it still wont work.. Sorry

Thanks for the effort :)

I dont see anything in the faw about wmv except that it cant be done is that right cd34?

You can NOT protect wmv files against hotlinking with .htaccess, because the media player does not send a HTTP_REFERER. Plus, if you allow the empty HTTP_REFERER in your .htaccess ( to allow people with firewalls to view your images/movies in general ), then your site is still open to hotlinking. The hotlinker can use js or i*f*rames and just send an empty HTTP_REFERER when hotlinking to your media file.

Here is a link to my demo pages that demonstrate how .htaccess can be bypassed ( when it allows emtpy HTTP_REFERER ) : http://hotlinker.trafficguardian.com/

Your software looks promising, I dont know if my host already has it!?

I doubt they do. For the time being it can only be used on dedicated servers ( movie gallery submiters use it). The hosting edition with support for virtual accounts ( which I guess you are on ), is on it's way :)