Htaccess - Hotlinking, Banning, Coding -

[lmabee]

Hey Coding Comrades,
I have been following the tutorials available on javascriptkit.com and just noticed they had a forum! How fantastic!
I have been trying to understand Htaccess for a couple of months, and would love to run my code by the professionals

So... what I am trying to do is block people from hot linking my media (mp3, avi, wmv, png, gif, jpg) as well as disable Directory Searching.

So after reading the lovely tutorial available on javascriptkit.com, I have a question...

When blocking websites from accessing your site you use:

RewriteEngine on
# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} badsite\.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} anotherbadsite\.com
RewriteRule .* - [F]

But! When I am trying to douse all hotlinking, I want to use this:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?mysite.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|wmv|avi|mp3|png|mov)$ - [F]

Is the latter going to overwrite the former? Because the coding is pretty much the same thing. SO, it's my understanding that the first bit of code is to make the "bad sites" not be able to access my website, and the second part of the code is to make my site the only own who can access all the media. Is my understanding correct?

My last question is on Index searching... by placing this code in my htaccess:

IndexIgnore *.gif *.jpg *.wmv *.avi *.mp3 *.png *.mov

Am I correct in saying all my media will not show when someone accesses my directories?

Thank you so much for your time and patience guys,
I really do appreciate your help.

With warmest regards,
Laura

[shyam]

whither xml?

[lmabee]

To be honest Shyam, I didn't know where to put this thread.
So I did a forum search and posted where most of the Htaccess stuff seemed to be.

Can you direct me to a correct spot if I'm in the wrong place?
I appreciate your reply!
Thank you,
Laura

[Alex Vincent]

Moved to Server side development.

[shyam]

[QUOTE=lmabee;645457]
RewriteEngine on
# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} badsite\.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} anotherbadsite\.com
RewriteRule .* - [F]

Originally Posted by lmabee

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?mysite.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|wmv|avi|mp3|png|mov)$ - [F]

Is the latter going to overwrite the former? Because the coding is pretty much the same thing. SO, it's my understanding that the first bit of code is to make the "bad sites" not be able to access my website, and the second part of the code is to make my site the only own who can access all the media. Is my understanding correct?

IndexIgnore *.gif *.jpg *.wmv *.avi *.mp3 *.png *.mov

Am I correct in saying all my media will not show when someone accesses my directories?

2 points scored 1 for each correct answer