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I want to disbale hot linking of FLV and MP4 videos hosted on my server, except when the videos are displayed from a page which its URL starts with :
http://www.mywebsite.com/index.php?main_page=videos_page&

What are the apache configurations that I have to add to my .htaccess file?

KarimMesallam
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    This is near duplicate of [Apache .htaccess hotlinking redirect](http://stackoverflow.com/q/1126552/331508) and several others. – Brock Adams Jun 17 '11 at 07:03

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To disable hot-linking and replace the content with a generic site logo fo sorts to direct people back to your site rather then the image, add this to the .htaccess folde rin the root of your site:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?yoursite\.com/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !hotlink\.(gif|png\SOME FILETYPES NOT TO HOTLINK) [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php?main_page=videos_page&
RewriteRule .*\.(gif|jpg|png)$ http://www.mywebsite.org/generic/imagetoreplace.png [NC]

Remember, .htaccess is hidden, so make sure 'show hidden files' it turned on in yoru ftp client.

alt
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  • I'm sorry, but I think you didn't read my question well enough. – KarimMesallam Jun 17 '11 at 14:40
  • Maybe you could elaborate. Your questional was disabling hotlinking on videos. Just change gif|png to mon|avi|mp4|flv... etc. Then just add a rewrite condition for that url. Easy. What am I not getting here? – alt Jun 17 '11 at 15:33
  • I said in my question "except when the videos are displayed from a page which its URL starts with : http://www.mywebsite.com/index.php?main_page=videos_page&. you didn't mention anything answering that. – KarimMesallam Jun 17 '11 at 15:40
  • `HTTP_REFERER` can be easily faked – Pedro Lobito Apr 17 '22 at 10:48