Help with .htaccess & mod_rewrite

**Loon** · 05:07 AM

Hi

I used to use the following in my .htaccess file to prevent people hotlinking to my downloads

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://mydomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(exe|ocx|dll|zip|rar)$ - [F]

This always used to work fine for me, however a while ago my host moved to a different server, and now if i use the same in my .htaccess file when i (or anyone) tries to access my site you just get directed to the 403 page

At first i thought mabye mod_rewrite wasn't setup on the new server but it's listed under the loaded modules in phpinfo so i guess it must be.

Any ideas?

Thanks

*edit - Arrgh i just checked my error logs and found the following

Quote:

[Fri Jun 20 04:23:33 2003] [error] [client ***.***.**.***] Options FollowSymLinks or SymLinksIfOwnerMatch is off which implies that RewriteRule directive is forbidden: /home/virtual/site31/fst/var/www/html/error_docs/403.html

I guess this means it's disabled on the server even though mod_rewrite is on :\

I don't think there's another way to prevent hotlinking with .htaccess is there?