Htaccess- 301 Redirect An Entire Directory / Folder

Maruf — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:07:00 +0000

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 with Htaccess

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^old_dir/(.*) http://www.example.com/new_dir/ [R=301,L]

The nice thing about this code is that regardless of how deep you go into old_dir, it will always redirect. So literally the entire directory is redirected.

Htaccess: Prevent People Hotlinking Your Images

Maruf — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:49:10 +0000

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, gif and png files hosted on brightcherry.co.uk can only be displayed on brightcherry.co.uk. Anyone else that tries to hotlink it will see a X.

Why would you want to prevent people from hotlinking?

There are many reasons, but the main two I can think of are:

Prevents copyright infringement
Reduces data transfer. If someone hotlinks one of your images onto a website that receives heavy traffic, it will be your server that’s sending the data. That could specifically be costly for Admins that don’t have unlimited data transfer allowance.

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Htaccess- 301 Redirect An Entire Directory / Folder

Redirect An Entire Directory / Folder with Htaccess

Htaccess: Prevent People Hotlinking Your Images

Why would you want to prevent people from hotlinking?