Blocking Traffic- and Picture-Thieves

You're modifying lines inside a block marked:

# BEGIN Url Rewrite section
# (Automatically generated. Do not edit this section)

-- this is not a good idea! For safety, put any changes you make outside of that block else Gallery may choke on or delete your changes.

To block hotlinkers, try Site Admin -> URL Rewrite and then click the checkbox next to "Block hotlinked items". That should update your .htaccess file with the right rules.

Hm, yes I see what you mean. G2 doesn't know about all the various domains that you're using to access your photos. Ok, here's what you can do. Turn off that rule in Site Admin -> URL Rewrite. Then edit your .htaccess file and *above* the gallery "don't modify this" block, add these lines:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} view=core.DownloadItem
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !://www.fotogemeinschaft.de/ [NC]
... all your other domains here in the same format as the line above ...
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteRule . /main.php? [F,L]

I tested this out on my server and it worked properly.

Great - thanks al lot to valiant and bharat:

Here is now my AUTOMATICALLY modificates .htaccess:

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ErrorDocument 300 /
ErrorDocument 404 /
# BEGIN Url Rewrite section
# (Automatically generated. Do not edit this section)
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} gallery\_remote2\.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/main\.php$
RewriteRule . - [L]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} view=core.DownloadItem
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !://www.fotogemeinschaft.eu/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !://www.fotogemeinschaft.at/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !://www.fotogemeinschaft.com/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !://www.fotogemeinschaft.info/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !://www.fotogemeinschaft.net/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !://www.photogemeinschaft.de/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !://www.world-family.de/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !://www.world-family.info/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !://www.with-open-eyes.de/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !://www.with-open-eyes.info/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !://www.fotocommunity.de/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !://www.fotogemeinschaft.de/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteRule . /main.php? [F,L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \ /sitemap(\?.|\ .)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/main\.php$
RewriteRule . /main.php?g2_view=sitemap.Sitemap [QSA,L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \ /c/view/([0-9]+).html(\?.|\ .)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/main\.php$
RewriteRule . /main.php?g2_view=comment.ShowAllComments&g2_itemId=%1 [QSA,L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \ /c/add/([0-9]+).html(\?.|\ .)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/main\.php$
RewriteRule . /main.php?g2_view=comment.AddComment&g2_itemId=%1 [QSA,L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \ /d/([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)/([^\/\?]+)(\?.|\ .)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/main\.php$
RewriteRule . /main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=%1&g2_serialNumber=%2&g2_fileName=%3 [QSA,L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \ /v/([^?]+)(\?.|\ .)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/main\.php$
RewriteRule . /main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_path=%1 [QSA,L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \ /([^?]+)(\?.|\ .)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/main\.php$
RewriteRule . /main.php?g2_view=rewrite.FileNotFound [QSA,L]

</IfModule>

# END Url Rewrite section

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And picture-/traffic-thieves now have a lot of 'broken links' (;-)

Ralf

Please visit my gallery if you are interested in good B/W-photos:
http://www.fotogemeinschaft.de