replace image in post with another

[Member 3639]

So i have found a website nicking my images and hotlinking directly to it and then poaching my news.

In my post i have an image attached, where do i find this image so i can replace it with a little message for them? I tried the attachments folder but the image for it in there is tiny :S

Ps. Is there a way to stop people being able to hot link attached files?

 

[Paul B]

You can disable hotlinking at the server level.

If you have cPanel you can do it from there.

Or you can add something like this to your .htaccess file:

# Prohibits hotlinking of images
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://mysite.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http:// mysite .com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.mysite.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.mysite.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(jpeg|gif|bmp|png|jpg)$ path/to/replacement/image.png [L]

The full size images are in the internal_data directory.

 

[Member 3639]

I couldn't get it to work in cpanel so i sent a support ticket.

Managed to find where they attachments are stored so i re-made a nicer image for them.

That will teach them.

 

[Member 3639]

Just a note because attached files are using a php file to view the image you cannot stop hotlinking?

 

[Jake Bunce]

Just a note because attached files are using a php file to view the image you cannot stop hotlinking?

What is the URL of the image? You just need to change the rewriterule to match the URL in question.

 

[Member 3639]

Well i want to stop anyone from hotlinking attachments, there seems to be no way to stop people in the options.

So a rewrite rule to stop;
http://gamingonlinux.com/index.php?attachments/control_room_1-jpg.327/
(An example)

Anything in
http://gamingonlinux.com/index.php?attachments/filename-extension.number/
I need that blocked and sent to http://www.gamingonlinux.com/nohotlinking.jpg

Can you help?

 

[Jake Bunce]

Try this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://gamingonlinux.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://gamingonlinux.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.gamingonlinux.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.gamingonlinux.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} attachments/.*$
RewriteRule ^.*$ http://www.gamingonlinux.com/nohotlinking.jpg? [NC,L]

 

[Member 3639]

No that doesn't work either.

 

[Jake Bunce]

I know this part works:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} attachments/.*$
RewriteRule ^.*$ http://www.gamingonlinux.com/nohotlinking.jpg? [NC,L]

I didn't actually test the referral stuff.

 

[Member 3639]

Well the code doesn't work as this website is still able to poach my image (although i delete the image now)
http://www.tuxplay.pl/newsy/nadchodzi-amnesia-a-machine-for-pigs/

My replacement image doesn't show up.

 

[Jake Bunce]

I can play with it if you give me a FTP login.

 

[Member 3639]

Sure i will fire you up a PM once i get a temp one sorted