Redirect images

I have a ton of images being hotlinked from my site. Is it possible to set up a redirect in apache that redirects requests for these images to my main site?

 

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www\.example\.com/ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(jpg|gif|png)$ http://www.example.com/this-site-stole-this-image.gif [L]

Code (markup):

Should get you going.

 

So if someone hotlinks the stolen image and embeds on their site it will redirect them to mine?

 

If they hotlink an image on your site then the visitor will see this-site-stole-this-image.gif, you could host that on some free image hosting site if you want to get rid of the bandwidth.

 

There is also a function in cPanel (if you are using that) that protects images against hotlinking.