[thelist] Block a Referring URL
Brent Eades
beades at almonte.com
Mon Mar 13 09:37:10 CST 2006
jono at charlestonwebsolutions.com wrote:
> Ordinarily, external incoming links are a good thing, but what about when
> it is not a good thing? Is there a way to block a referring/incoming URL?
>
> For example, www.company-one.com has a link to a particular page on
> www.company-two.com's Web site. Can company-two.com block the incoming
> links that company-one has set up?
The following .htaccess should work, assuming the Apache server is
configured to allow rewriting in the directory(s) in question:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*company-one.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* http://company-two.com/some_file.html [R]
This will redirect links from company-one.com (or other TLDs they may
have, such as .net, etc) to a file of your choosing on company-two.com
If you don't want to redirect, change the third line to:
RewriteRule .* - [F]
...which should produce a '403 Forbidden' result.
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Brent Eades
Almonte, Ontario
http://almonte.com
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