I have read about a hundred pages on hotlinking today and I have been trying to implement an .htaccess file to prevent it, but so far nothing is working. I am using Slackware Linux 10 and Apache 1.3.36. What I want to do is stop people from directly downloading from my DL directory. i.e. www.mysite.com/download/myfile.avi If they type in the above I want an error page displayed. Currently I have an .htaccess file in the root directory of my site, as follows. RewriteEngine on RewriteOptions inherit RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}!^$ RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.mysite.ca/.*$ [NC] RewriteRule .*.(avi|AVI|mpg|MPG|wmv|WMV|swf|SWF)$ - [F] This is very simplistic, but I just want to get it working, then I can add other options or whatever. Any help on what I am doing wrong is appreciated, or any other solutions to stop direct downloading. Thanks --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx