Prevent Hot linking of video

To Prevent Hot linking of video create a .htaccess file with following content

Code:

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://YOURDOMAIN.COM [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.YOURDOMAIN.COM [NC]
RewriteRule .*.(jpg|flv)$ - [NC,F]

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Upload it to flvideo folder.

If you do not want web access on video folder (orginal uploded video stored in this folder). Create a .htaccess file with following content and upload it to video folder

Code:

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deny from all

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When I applied these .htaccess documents to the specified folders, the videos would not play.

DOH Never mind! I forgot to change the domain name.

will this allow them to embed the videos still on their sites?

if you want to disable the embed link on ALL of the videos even existing ones without going one by one

you can go to video.tpl and comment out the table with the embed/object form in it.

I dont want to disable the embeding of movies, i just dont want them to steal my bandwidth.

There is another discussion on this topic here:

http://forums.buyscripts.in/viewtopic.php?t=1245

My understanding is that your videos will still be embeddable.

ok thx. do you know anything about getting the progress bar to work? i have followed all instructions in the thread on the forum but i still get a 500 ERROR.

I'm sorry to bump an old thread, but I was wondering if someone could clue me in as to the most common hotlinking method so I can test this. I've uploaded the prescribed htaccess file and an image to be displayed on the theif's site. I've done a test embed on a blog and the embed worked good, which is what I wanted. But now how do I test to see if hotlinking will be stopped?

Update --

I just used the player setup wizard to load up one of my flv files directly. Since this is external of my site I thought it should be stopped and the thief image displayed. Unfortunately, the video played just fine, so it seems like maybe it's not protecting against hotlinking after all.

Has anyone tested this successfully?

post a direct link to one of your flv files here....when u click the link it should stop you as the refering site is buyscripts.in

Thanks Leki. Let me see here. Actually, I used the code from the other thread; I just pulled up the wrong one to post in. Maybe I should try the htaccess file in this one.

The problem is probably how I did the htaccess file.

Code:

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?foxxytheater.com(/)?.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(flv|swf|png|bmp)$ /cinema/include/contenttheif.jpg [L,NC]

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I added the cinema part before the include because my vshare is located in a subdirectory titled cinema. Maybe this is where I went wrong.

also make sure the file isn't in your cache....you a different browser to test on a video you have not opened

http://www.foxxytheater.com/cinema/flvi ... 548850.flv

redirects to vshare.in ....that what u set it to?

Ah, I see. I was planning to install opera tomorrow, so maybe that will give me something to do when playing around with the browser.

No, I didn't set it to do that. I think there is something in the player.inc that calls that. I'll look into it tomorrow since it's nearly 3am here.

To prevent hotlinking of certain file types, you need to include the extention in the .htaccess in this line:

Code:

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RewriteRule \.(flv|swf|png|bmp)$ /cinema/include/contenttheif.jpg [L,NC]

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However I too tried the setup wizard and my video played as well so not sure why this isn't working like it's supposed to....

I put "deny from all' and the videos don't play on my site.

UPDATE: The code needs to be in the .htaccess in the root directory (not the flvideo directory). I added this bit of code to the main .htaccess AND the logo was displayed instead!!!! Yay!!!! To get the image to be displayed, I just needed to remove the first "slash" so that it was like this (notice the missing slash from infront of "cinema"):

Code:

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RewriteRule \.(flv|swf|png|bmp)$ cinema/include/contenttheif.jpg [L,NC]

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Hi, How to stop hotlinking in IIS6?
because I am using ftv server to host my FLV files. I noticed lately my bandwidth consumption is very high its highly likely its due to hotlinking. I think .httaccess dont work in IIS. How can i use .httaccess in IIS or is there any other way to do what .httaccess does in IIS?

create .htaccess and put this in it and upload to your flvideo folder

Code:

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RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?yourdomain.com(/)?.*$ [NC]

RewriteRule \.(gif|jpe?g|png|bmp|flv)$ templates/images/logo.jpg [L,NC]

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If that still doesn't work, another thing you can do is rename the flv file in admin panel (that's why it's there).
or try this: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=pr ... gle+Search

Please do post your findings if someone else here doesn't answer first.

posting a link here to see if this works

http://www.rudeathome.com/flvideo/12174 ... 778892.flv

http://www.rudeathome.com/view/297/pierced-msn-girl/

Thanks for the help this seems to work fine for me

Nice. What I do, and this is just a suggestion, is have it link to your site LOGO instead of a "bandwidth theft" notice..this way it appears more like an ad banner (like free advertising for you!!). :D

now thats a good idea

Here's some additional suggestions for preventing FLV hotlinking that I ran across using Google Search Engine:

Flowplayer Anti-leeching - Rob A's (Im)personal Blog

http://forums.buyscripts.in/template...ing-video.html

Media Hotlink Protection

Here's a little something from JW Player: http://www.longtailvideo.com/support...m-With-FireFox

Scroll down to the comment by GORDON, he mentions something about headers not sending out referrers in FireFox which renders .htaccess obsolete and recommends using the media Hotlink protection I posted above.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by grynmoors

Media Hotlink Protection

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Can someone walk us through the usage of this,like what files to edit etc. please?

Hate to resurrect this, but what about Lighttpd streams? the url looks like this now.

secflv/dc9e3e395989b185d5a871df1914a5fa/4d6d8163/4ca4238a0b/

I tried placing the .htaccess in the /4ca4238a0b folder but no go.

Never mind I found out that it is built in already.