RewriteCond and RewriteRule

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jeffschips

• May 13, 2024 00:15

Hello I hope everyone is safe and healthy.  Happy Mother's day to all mothers!

Can someone enlighten me as to what these rewrite conditions do in plain english:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https://www.somename.com/.*$      [NC]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https://www.somename.com$      [NC]

RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp)$ - [F,NC]

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • May 13, 2024 14:01

  Hey there!  Not teeeeeechnically related to cPanel, but I'll give it a shot :D

  It looks like this is taking direct access to images and returning a 403 Forbidden error to the client.  F is the forbidden error and NC make the file case-insensitive.

  https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/rewrite/flags.html

  The first two rules there seem to setup what gets rewritten, so it can either be the exact domain.com/image or a subdirectory.

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  jeffschips

  • May 13, 2024 18:38

  Thank yhou cPRex - I finally figured that out and yes that's correct.  It's to stop vagrants from shopping my images in my sites.  Appreciate the fast response.  SOLVED

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • May 13, 2024 19:12

  You're very welcome!

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