Saving Bandwidth From Image Hi-Jackers!

Lets face it loosing bandwidth and paying out of your own pocket for people that cheat the system sucks shit. I have had it happen to me (GRRR). As a new adult webmaster figuring out how to make money is hard enough mistakes that cost money are even worse.

After searching forums, reading tutorials and testing my own sites and other websites located on the large TGP's of the web i found alot of webmasters have not protect thier servers properly. My mainstream business is computer repair / maintance I have wrote articles on PC protection using hardware firewalls, sypware removal etc. etc. you can read some of them at www.E-Axis-Inc.com my goal has always been to help people, show them free software that can help them protect there PC's now it seems I have found a new group of people to help as i learn myself!

The first thing to do on your Adult webserver is place an HTACCESS file in your image folder. This file will allow you to control many differnet elements of the folder itself.

Step 1 - Create a Text File called htaccess.txt copy the lines in Example HTACCESS.TXT
Step 2 - Replace the words yourdomainname.com with your REAL domain name
Step 3 - Upload to your webserver
Step 4 - Rename htaccess.txt to .htaccess
Step 5 - Test to Verify Hot Linking to your Images is now Disabled!

Test Your Website for Image Hot-Linking!

Example HTACCESS.TXT (single domain)

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?yourdomainname.com(/)?.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|bmp|mpg|wmv)$ - [F,NC]

Example HTACCESS.TXT (Multi domain)

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?yourdomainname.com(/)?.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?your_other_domainname.com(/)?.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|bmp|mpg|wmv)$ - [F,NC]

There is much more you can do with the .htaccess file but this very basic example will get you started to discuss more about free site buidling, gallery building and all things adult webmaster visit our Top 10 Forum page to find some new resources to help you improve as an adult webmaster!

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