mod_rewrite not working properly for hotlinked images

Question

i want to redirect all hotlinked images to one dummy image.

i applied htaccess code for this purpose, but it is only redirecting 404(not found) images

means the hotlinked images with correct links are not being redirected.

i also have applied a redirect for non-www to www version, think this redirect is causing some conflict with hotlinked redirect code

here is the code

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_fileNAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_fileNAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?mysite/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|png) http://www.mysite.com/temp/aa.jpg [R,L]

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 13 '12 at 12:57

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Well, you explicitly exclude rewriting of requests to files that do exist with this condition:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

I actually I am not sure if you really want to redirect all clients for every single image to another domain name. That means you double the http requests required for the client.

answered Dec 13 '12 at 12:57

arkascha

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when i removed ' %{REQUEST_fileNAME} !-f ' the server goes to infinite loop. please suggest me complete code – Mudassar Bashir Dec 13 '12 at 13:22
i want to redirect all hotlinked images to the dummy image. (original and dummy images are on same website) – Mudassar Bashir Dec 13 '12 at 13:36
The endless loopp probably is a result of the fact that you redirect to a file `aa.jpg`. But you rewrite all requests to files ending with `.jpg`... That is an endless loop. Maybe you want to add an expection from rewriting for this file. – arkascha Dec 13 '12 at 14:19

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 13 '12 at 15:13

A modification like this one should work:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite\.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*/aa.jpg$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?mysite\.com/?$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*\.(gif|jpg|png)$ http://www.mysite.com/temp/aa.jpg [R=301,L]

mod_rewrite not working properly for hotlinked images

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