.htaccess causing unwanted 403 error

External Since: Nov 10, 2003 Posts: 7

I have been using .htaccess to prevent hotlinking of images from my site and
it works well. However, I am switching to a new host (a dedicated server)
and when I upload the file in the httpdocs directory (named /html) I get a
403 error trying to access any file in the domain - not jut PNG, GIF, or JPG
as specified in the .htaccess file below:

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

I have tried to view the site with and without the www prefix, and with and
without specifying index.html (i.e.mysite.com AND mysite.com/index.html).
Any idea what the problem might be? Again this works fine on my old host
just as I have it here.

Thanks for any suggestions.

External Since: Oct 22, 2003 Posts: 28

"Ken Jones" <nospam.RemoveThis@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:AMPrb.8974$P%1.7990187@newssvr28.news.prodigy.com...
> I have been using .htaccess to prevent hotlinking of images from my site
and
> it works well. However, I am switching to a new host (a dedicated server)
> and when I upload the file in the httpdocs directory (named /html) I get a
> 403 error trying to access any file in the domain - not jut PNG, GIF, or
JPG
> as specified in the .htaccess file below:
>
> RewriteEngine on
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?mysite.com/.*$ [NC]
<font color=purple> > RewriteRule .*\.(gif|jpg|png)$ <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.differentsite.com/hotlinkimg.jpg</font" target="_blank">http://www.differentsite.com/hotlinkimg.jpg</font</a>>
> [R,L]
>
> I have tried to view the site with and without the www prefix, and with
and
> without specifying index.html (i.e.mysite.com AND mysite.com/index.html).
> Any idea what the problem might be? Again this works fine on my old host
> just as I have it here.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
>

Here's a rewrite rule found on <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://wsabstract.com/howto/htaccess10.shtml" target="_blank">http://wsabstract.com/howto/htaccess10.shtml</a>

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?mydomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg)$ <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.mydomain.com/nasty.gif" target="_blank">http://www.mydomain.com/nasty.gif</a> [R,L]

I notice the asterisk in your last line. Maybe it isn't supposed to be
there. And the [R,L] is on the same line (unless that's the post's own line
break).

John
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