How come .htaccess isn't working right?

Here is all I have tried:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?fszone.org [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/hotlinking\.gif$
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpe?g|bmp|png|wmv)$ http://www.fszone.org/hi.gif [NC,R,L]

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.*)?fszone\.org/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|jpeg|bmp)$ http://www.fszone.org/maian_uploader/uploads/fszone.png [L]

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?fszone.org(/)?.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?fszone.org/forums(/)?.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?fszone.org(/)?.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|bmp)$ http://www.fszone.org/maian_uploader/uploads/fszone.png [R,NC]

Then I've uploaded it to http://www.fszone.org/maian_uploader/uploads/ and renamed it to .htaccess. But for some reason it block ALL hotlinks... when it's set to block them from everywhere BUT my own website.

I know for a fact the first one works because a webmaster gave it to me and it works on his server!

Anyone here have any suggestions?

I'm running windows XP with Apache 2.0.49

dunno if this helps, but try this one...

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?fszone.org/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|bmp|png|wmv)$ http://www.fszone.org/maian_uploader/uploads/fszone.png [R,L]


be sure your file is simply...
.htaccess
and not something like...
.htaccess.txt

That didn't do the job either. :(

Is there some special server setting or anything I have to allow?

have you checked with your host that they allow htaccess and mod_rewrite?

I'm not sure. Unless you have to change a server setting then I'm guessing yes.


I've also tried the one you gave me on my own server (Easy PHP, Apache 1.3.27) and it didn't work either. Also when I try to access the directory the .htaccess is in I get a 500 Internal Server error :confused: