.htaccess and sub-domains

[Stewie Griffin]

I'm preventing hot-linking from my site. Issue is, I want to prevent from both my main portfolio AND sub-domain. Here's what I wrote:

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?site.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?sub.site.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|swf)$ redirect.gif [R,L]

Now, I am capable of getting this to work for the main site (the first listed), but not for the sub.
Is there some lil' extra step I should be taking?

Thanks in advance for all your replies.

[Stewie Griffin]

If this will help any, besides the main site (site.com), the second site (sub.site.com) contains my phpBB forum. Could it not be working due to the fact that the sub site is .php based?

I've been searching high and low, only to recieve thousands of tutorials referring to only one site on one account. I have in my directory:

site.com
sub.site.com (php)
test.com
test2.com
sub.test.com (php)
>htaccess

And I wish to prevent hotlinking on the first two, somehow using the one htaccess file. If there is an alternative way to disallow hotlinking to the sub, I'm open for suggestions (if within reason of my knowledge and easibility).

[Stewie Griffin]

Nevermind.
It appears that this will be more trouble than I thought. I've been viewing Apache's site and I am having to know alot more than what I wish to. There's also a conflict with another code in which is inputted in the file (for security reasons, I do not wish to imply what that code refers to).

Thanks for brushing this topic and giving it a look.

[UseLess]

Greetings,

I don't know how your domains are setup but mine are in 2 seperate dirs, 1 for the forum and 1 for the website, and if I wanted to prevent hot linking I would think I would have to put a .htaccess file in the root of each domain.

[Stewie Griffin]

I have my directories set-up as in the second reply. I had always thought the file was placed 'outside' the folder, where you see alias, postfix, etc, files. It worked for my main site, but not for the sub. I then moved it to both of those folders (main and sub) and get errors (500 Internal). So, after reading the Apache site, I got lost and said, "screw it" and deleted the htaccess files.

There's alot of different methods online that I had tested, and they all failed me. So, I basically gave up. They only work for the main site (and only if placed "outside" its directory), never for the sub.

[UseLess]

Greetings,

Shouldn't line 4 in the above be;

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RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://sub.site.com/.*$ [NC]

or something like that as surely you'll access it with;

http://sub.site.com and not http://www.sub.site.com ?

So if the '(www\.)?' is to stay there it needs to be optional... but then I know very little about apache and could be miles off.

[Stewie Griffin]

Sounds like a busy weekend redoing this.
I played with that, too. Because, with the sub domain, I have it played out that "www" SHOULD NOT BE INPUTTED in the address, even though you can still access it that way. Even though it's off-topic, I think I need to contact my host about that.

I'll PM you this weekend about the other code, UL. I think that is the one giving me the 500 error, not being compatible with either my hosts settings or with the above code.

**edit**
Duhhhh
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