Scribbles about htaccess fun

Htaccess- 301 Redirect An Entire Directory / Folder

Here’s a simple pierce of code which will permanently redirect a folder / directory. For example, if you have a directory in the following path: http://www.example.com/pictures/, and for whatever reason decide to rename the directory to http://www.example.com/new-pictures/, the following htaccess code will safely redirect all users from /pictures/ to /new-pictures/
Redirect An Entire Directory / Folder [...]

Htaccess: Prevent People Hotlinking Your Images

Here’s some Htaccess code that will prevent people from hotlinking images hosted on your server. Simply change the domain to yours and then apply the code to your .htaccess. It’s as easy as that.

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RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(.*\.)?brightcherry.co.uk [NC]
RewriteRule \.(jpeg|jpg|gif|png)$ – [F]

The code is basically saying that all jpg, [...]