Hey there,

I currently use the excellent myMedia module to stream a new video file every week to my visitors, the files are usaully between 20 - 40 mb in size and are stored in the media directory of the module /myMedia/images/media, Unfortunatley I have came across a site who has stolen the code for the media player and they are streaming my videos on their site basically stealing my valuable bandwidth.

Is there away I can stop people from hotlinking my video files in myMedia? I'm not looking for anything as major as a hack to the module perhaps something I can do with htaccess or something in cpanel? I already have image hotlinking disabled via cpanel.

I'm on XOOPS 2.0.13.2

Thanks for any help.

OK, i found the following htaccess code when googling for some answers but it doesnt seem to work, i placed the .htaccess file into the myMedia/images/media/directory

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?mysite.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(mp3|avi|mpg|wmv)$ - [F]

Any ideas how I can get this to work?

Thanks

If your hosting company provides you with a CPanel to work with your site, there's a function in it called either "Web Protect" or "Hot Link Protect" that should work for you.

Try putting the .htacess file in the root index of your site (public_html)

Hope this helps.