How to prevent people from hotlinking anything on your server. You can stop servers from hotlinking your site's files by editing the .htaccess file in your site's root directory. (Consult your webhost on accessing your .htaccess file.) Example: Your site url is www.example.com. To stop hotlinking images from an outside domain and display an image called nohotlink.jpg instead, use this code in your .htaccess file: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www.)?example.com/ [NC RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ RewriteRule .(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ images/nohotlink.jpg [L] Code (markup): To allow hotlinking images only if the REFERER (sic) is from a specific directory from your domain: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www.)?example.com/dir/ [NC RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ RewriteRule .(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ images/nohotlink.jpg [L] Code (markup): To stop hotlinking images from specific outside domains only, named badsite.net and badsite.com: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www.)?badsite.net/ [NC,OR RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www.)?badsite.com/ [NC RewriteRule .(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ images/nohotlink.jpg [L] Code (markup): Warning: Do not use .htaccess to redirect image hotlinks to another HTML page or server that isn't your own (such as this web page). Hotlinked images can only be redirected to other images, not to HTML pages. Original Tutorial Cited From: .htaccess Tutorials Hope some of you find this useful! Do let me know!!