Redirecting to a new file extension

[user1635]

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I'm creating a new site where the main content is images, so I'm trying to both prevent hotlinking and monetize visitors that come from image searches.

When a visitor tries to navigate directly to an image I want them to be redirected to a page which displays the image in a page; the page hosting the image is at the same file address, but with a different extension, e.g.:

domain.com/folder/01.jpg gets redirected to domain.com/folder/01.php

I've managed to achieve the first goal of preventing hotlinking with this in the .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} \.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !domain\.com [NC]

But I haven't been able to find a way to redirect visitors to the new file extension yet . I know its possible because I've seen it done.

Any help is appreciated.

[Sproates]

The following should work as you want:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} \.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !(domain\.com) [NC]
RewriteRule (.*)\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ http://domain.com/folder/$1.php [R,L]

It's also possible to use the same PHP file for all images:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} \.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !(domain\.com) [NC]
RewriteRule (.*)\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ http://domain.com/folder/hotlink.php?image=$0 [R,L]

where hotlink.php contains something like the following:

<img src="<?php echo $_REQUEST['image']; ?>">

[user1635]

The following should work as you want:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} \.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !(domain\.com) [NC]
RewriteRule (.*)\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ http://domain.com/folder/$1.php [R,L]

Awsome, thank you.

It's also possible to use the same PHP file for all images:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} \.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !(domain\.com) [NC]
RewriteRule (.*)\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ http://domain.com/folder/hotlink.php?image=$0 [R,L]

where hotlink.php contains something like the following:

<img src="<?php echo $_REQUEST['image']; ?>">

Good point, it would be a lot easier to handle all the images with one PHP file then rewrite the url afterwards.

Sproates you're a star :tup