Hotlinking Prevention

Hi!

I'm looking at an effective way of preventing hotlinking as I'm looking at starting a TGP site.

I know you can prevent hotlinking by using .htaccess I think, by checking the referrer that the image is being called from your site.

However, at the moment I have all my `media files' store in a directory outside my website. eg: website at: /public/site/ media is at /media/

Then any of my sites can access the same images without having to upload them multiple times.

Anyway is this an effective safeguard against hot-linking?

Thanks
Ernie

You can setup .htaccess so that you can block hotlinking from any external sites EXCEPT for sites you own :)

I think we have an article on GWW somewhere that will let you see an example .htaccess file with that type of setup too :)

Regards,

Lee