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NARKOZ
Asked: 2009-12-07 11:54:57 +0800 CST

How can I prevent hotlinking? (nginx)

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I use nginx and I have no access to server conf.

May be with .htaccess analogue?..

nginx

5 Answers

  1. location ~* (\.jpg|\.png|\.gif|\.jpeg)$ {
 valid_referers blocked www.domain.com domain.com;
 if ($invalid_referer) {
    return 403;
 }
  root   /srv/www/domain.com/public_html;
}
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  2. Best Answer

    Without access to the server configuration, you cannot change any settings. There is no equivalent to Apache httpd's .htaccess in nginx.

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  3. Just in case you HAVE access to the webserver:

    location ~* (\.jpg|\.png|\.gif|\.jpeg|\.png)$ {
 valid_referers none blocked www.example.com example.com;
 if ($invalid_referer) {
    return 403;
 }
}
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  4. joschi is right: nginx is driven by a single configuration file you can't edit. Your only possibility is to use a redirector script which says '403 Access Denied' for hotlinks and '301 Moved Permanently' for normal links.

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  5. One solution is to generate all your pages & content dynamically, and with different URLs every time, which expire after a while. That makes hotlinking impossible.

    If that is not practical, you can also check referrer. If you cannot reconfigure nginx, you'll probably have to do it in a scripting language which generates the pages dynamically.

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