A website question

[RichardGv]

Hotlink protection does not actually need PHP to work. The most common technique is to judge whether the user is accessing from a correct source by checking the "Referrer" HTTP header. This can be achieved easily by Apache itself:

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\\.)?yoursite\\.com [NC]
RewriteRule \\.(gif|jpe?g)$ /images/hotlink.$1 [L]

(These code are supposed to be added to .htaccess or httpd.conf. The respective hotlink error images need to put on your server. The code came from this article: http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/hotl...-htaccess/ )
Of course, using cPanel hotlink protection is easier, if less customizable. (And I believe cPanel actually do it by writing a .htaccess.)