HELP! Some idiots hotlinking my videos!
 

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:

Cloudflare..

That fucking sucks.... follow the tips above :thumbsup

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

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.

Best way to go!

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.

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;

}