booyabazooka — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 18:56:34 +0000

Mmmkay, I got it working:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*).gif$
ReWriteRule ^(.*)?/(.*)?$ $1~$2
ReWriteRule ^(.*).gif$ secure.php?url=$1.gif

Problem solved.

booyabazooka — Sun, 11 Apr 2004 22:25:39 +0000

I... have no idea what that means.

Update:
I got this to work by changing the config from "AllowOverride none" to "AllowOverride All".
I've also uncommented LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

Now I just don't know how to get it to do what I want. Can anyone help?

I need to replace (foo).gif with secure.php?url=(foo).gif. A few issues: since there can't be slashes after the question mark in the url, I need to escape those or replace them with another character; also, it needs to only do this replacement if ".php" isn't in the url, to prevent looping.

I don't understand the syntax well enough at this point to write anything that works... so any help would be great.

s0da — Sun, 11 Apr 2004 22:21:56 +0000

is your mod_rewrite being loaded in your apache config?

booyabazooka — Sun, 11 Apr 2004 22:16:37 +0000

Still... not... doing... anything.

s0da — Sun, 11 Apr 2004 21:51:17 +0000

maybe its the :8080 try that

booyabazooka — Sun, 11 Apr 2004 21:49:20 +0000

Still no...

It looks like Apache isn't even looking at .htaccess. It's in the same directory with the image... do I need to do anything with Apache's config files?

s0da — Sun, 11 Apr 2004 21:42:42 +0000

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://booya.no-ip.org:8080(/)?.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png|bmp)$ images/nohotlink.jpg [L,F,NC]

booyabazooka — Sun, 11 Apr 2004 21:40:43 +0000

Yep, I have the file renamed fine... funny, I'm running Windows 2000.

But it doesn't seem to do anything.

For the record, I'm just building the site on my Windows box. The server where it will end up will undoubtedly be running a real OS.

The php script embeds text into a gif file. Since many people don't know about gif comment fields, this should serve as a decent security mechanism to prevent people from ripping off our images.

mairving — Sun, 11 Apr 2004 21:24:37 +0000

Cpanel is not currently available for Windows Servers. You should be able to rename the file by doing this from the command line (DOS prompt).
ren something.htaccess ".htaccess" with the quotes around the .htaccess. You usually don't have that problem in Windows 2000/XP, mainly on Windows 9X machines.

Doing something like that will be very processor intensive on your site. Just curious what your reason is for attempting this?

s0da — Sun, 11 Apr 2004 21:02:31 +0000

does your server use cpanel? if so then you can do it through there instead of doing it yourself.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=htaccess+image