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MRGTB · September 11th, 2005, 11:23 AM

I do the same as Conqsoft, I use a .htaccess file in my ROOT instead. This means that I can still hotlink to images on my forum board from the gallery and they will be displayed there correctly. Even to Guests also seeing as I allow guest to view the gallery on the site in the gallery usergroup permission settings. Otherwise if you hotlink to a large image in your gallery and display it on a forum post, and your group permissions in the gallery are setup to not allow guest to view them. They will see broken images in the forum post. (thumbnails will still work fine though).

My .htaccess file in my root still stops anybody from linking to images in viewing them on other sites away from my domain. Except Google and Alta vista who I have allowed in the .htaccess to lnk to images using the Google.images domine etc. This is so there image search engine will help to get the images listed on google to help boosts the site. Rather than stop google from linking to them.

September 11th, 2005, 11:23 AM	#23 (permalink)
MRGTB Registered User Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 238	Re: Hotlinking and .htaccess I do the same as Conqsoft, I use a .htaccess file in my ROOT instead. This means that I can still hotlink to images on my forum board from the gallery and they will be displayed there correctly. Even to Guests also seeing as I allow guest to view the gallery on the site in the gallery usergroup permission settings. Otherwise if you hotlink to a large image in your gallery and display it on a forum post, and your group permissions in the gallery are setup to not allow guest to view them. They will see broken images in the forum post. (thumbnails will still work fine though). My .htaccess file in my root still stops anybody from linking to images in viewing them on other sites away from my domain. Except Google and Alta vista who I have allowed in the .htaccess to lnk to images using the Google.images domine etc. This is so there image search engine will help to get the images listed on google to help boosts the site. Rather than stop google from linking to them.