Direct image display/linking
 

anyone know the htaccess code to prevent someone from typing in http://www.blah.com/image/something.jpg and showing an image

mod rewrite

do you have an example

Basically, just leave off the null referrer statement that is commonly added.

It should look like this:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?domain.com.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*[Jj][Pp][Gg]$|.*[Gg][Ii][Ff]$ http://www.hotlink.url

However, while this will block direct requests and your freeloading copy and pasters, it will also block spiders.

i'll just use it on the image folder instead of root