Apache prevent hot linking or leeching of images using mod_rewrite howto
Posted on in Categories Apache, CentOS, Debian / Ubuntu, FreeBSD, HP-UX Unix, Linux, RedHat and Friends, Security, Solaris-Unix, Suse, Ubuntu Linux, UNIX last updated October 7, 2008My site hosts lots of good images and other site hot links to my images from their own site. Hot linking is eating lots of my bandwidth. How do I stop lechers or prevent hotlinking under Apache web server?