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Preventing hotlinking of certain filetypes in certain directories

I'd like to prevent hotlinking of pdfs in a certain website directory without imposing a site-wide ban, and redirect any direct traffic to a given page. I suspect htaccess is my friend for this but don't know how I should define these rules.

Solution

  • Try:

    RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https?://example\.com/ [NC]
RewriteRule ^folder/ /given-page.html [L,R]

    Here, any request for anything in the folder /folder/ that is not referred to by your site (example.com) will be redirected to /given-page.html.