HELP! Some idiots hotlinking my videos!

[mightyjoe]

My videos are my personal shots (no face) Now I uploaded on my server and streams to my 5 sites with this format: mysite.com/videos/001.mp4. I find out that there are site that are hotlinking my vides.

Are there any chance to prevent my videos from hotlinking? My server is NGINX.

[Brian mike]

Originally Posted by mightyjoe

My videos are my personal shots (no face) Now I uploaded on my server and streams to my 5 sites with this format: mysite.com/videos/001.mp4. I find out that there are site that are hotlinking my vides.

Are there any chance to prevent my videos from hotlinking? My server is NGINX.

Find this on google/ youtube, hope this help:

[doeser]

Cloudflare..

[hornyasf]

That fucking sucks.... follow the tips above

[k0nr4d]

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)yourdomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(jpg|jpeg|mp4)$ - [F]

Or you can rewrite it to some fucked up disgusting video (1 man 1 jar or something) and display that for them instead, or like a video that just displays your domain or something.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)yourdomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(mp4)$ /fuckedupvid.mp4 [R,L]

[bugmenot4real]

Originally Posted by k0nr4d

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)yourdomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(jpg|jpeg|mp4)$ - [F]

Or you can rewrite it to some fucked up disgusting video (1 man 1 jar or something) and display that for them instead, or like a video that just displays your domain or something.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)yourdomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(mp4)$ /fuckedupvid.mp4 [R,L]

can you give a version for without www with first one?
ty

[hornyasf]

Originally Posted by k0nr4d

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)yourdomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(jpg|jpeg|mp4)$ - [F]

Or you can rewrite it to some fucked up disgusting video (1 man 1 jar or something) and display that for them instead, or like a video that just displays your domain or something.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)yourdomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(mp4)$ /fuckedupvid.mp4 [R,L]

Actually this is the best approach - didnt even think of this

[ZTT]

I always thought that kind of hotlink protection only worked for images, not video. In any case OP is using Nginx, and that code is for Apache.

[Black All Through]

Originally Posted by k0nr4d

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)yourdomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(jpg|jpeg|mp4)$ - [F]

Or you can rewrite it to some fucked up disgusting video (1 man 1 jar or something) and display that for them instead, or like a video that just displays your domain or something.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)yourdomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(mp4)$ /fuckedupvid.mp4 [R,L]

Best way to go!

[mightyjoe]

Originally Posted by k0nr4d

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)yourdomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(jpg|jpeg|mp4)$ - [F]

Or you can rewrite it to some fucked up disgusting video (1 man 1 jar or something) and display that for them instead, or like a video that just displays your domain or something.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)yourdomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(mp4)$ /fuckedupvid.mp4 [R,L]

Where do I put this? It is work for nginx? I stream the videos for 5 domains from the domain it hosted the videos. So the domain that hosted the videos is not stteaming the videos.

[mightyjoe]

found this for nginx, but it is not working. also i have 5 domains

location ~* .(mp4)$ {

valid_referers none server_names domain1.com www.domain2.com;

}

if ($invalid_referer) {

return 403;

}