Hot Link Image Viewer

[ciber]

Hi,

 

I have a big issue with my site, what is happening is im getting close to 3000 links to my images from forums and site - problem is I want the people to be able to view it from my site but i dont want it to be viewable on the site.

 

I tried playing around with some PHP as I wanted to get it to make the image viewable through php.

 

My idea was to take the source url and place it into an <img src=" "> but I dont know how to do the htaccess to work so that the image url and what should be put inbetween the " " to get the link there.

 

Does anyone know if this is possible? if so how can I do it then?

 

Thanks

[jonsjava]

put this in a your .htaccess file of the directory that your images reside:

.htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://([^.]+\.)?domain\.com/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !(googlebot-image|msnbot|psbot|yahoo-mmcrawler) [NC]
RewriteRule \.(bmp|gif|jpe?g|png)$ - [NC,F]
</IfModule>

 

[ciber]

Ive done that already,

 

What is happening now is

 

User visits from other site > htaccess blocks user > redirects to page saying "no access

 

what i want it to do is,

 

User visits from other site > user gets redirected to viewing page > image viewable

I want to use it so that they get re-directed to a page where the image is viewed, so that I can at least track the hits and the image is not being viewed without the sites borders around it.