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Nginx Hotlink Protection Help Needed
Greetings!
I have a small problem which I recently discovered and need to fix, because it's draining my resources.
Currently I have the following in my server block:
location ~ .(zip|rar)$ {
valid_referers none blocked mysite.com *.mysite.com;
if ($invalid_referer) {
rewrite ^ http://www.mysite.com/ break;
}
}
to prevent hotlinkig my files, and redirect leechers to my homepage instead.
Now I discovered that some rather large and busy site is linking to my files in the following form:
which circumvents
the current protection. Does anyone know how to stop this? I would much prefer to keep the current
homepage redirect, but will consider other solutions.
Thanks
Comments
I think the * in
*.mysite.comis the problem; maybe you can try to hardcode the subdomains?Oh shoot, it appears everything is working correctly as is. Forgot to clear my cache etc.
Case solved, thanks.
What about something like:
if ($http_referer !~ (^http://yoursite.com|^http://www.yoursite.com$) {
return 403 No.;
}
Dammit, it looks like it's only partially working. Chrome and Opera redirect properly, but firefox (and IE, but who cares?) doesn't. In this case I'm still looking for a solution.
@Bogdacutuu Hardcoding the subdomain doesn't fix it.