redirect images

[Josh]

I'm running low on bandwidth and im getting an unmetered server, I'm going to put all the images on it, but currently a lot of people are hotlinking my files (which I want), but is there a way to redirect all images, for instance coolsite.com/images/asdf/1.jpg to coolsite2.com/images/asdf/1.jpg? So if someone's hotlinking my image they're actually hotlinking coolsite2 and using it's bandwidth?

Im thinking this can be done with htaccess

 

[Brandon]

I'm running low on bandwidth and im getting an unmetered server, I'm going to put all the images on it, but currently a lot of people are hotlinking my files (which I want), but is there a way to redirect all images, for instance coolsite.com/images/asdf/1.jpg to coolsite2.com/images/asdf/1.jpg? So if someone's hotlinking my image they're actually hotlinking coolsite2 and using it's bandwidth?

Im thinking this can be done with htaccess

Id say just take coolsite.com on that server and be done with it. The optherway it to make .jpg a php handler and to then redirect it to the new image location.

 

[Josh]

coolsite.com uses a lot of resources, and the unmetered server is a crappy celeron, so it wouldn't survive if i did that

also i have no idea what you mean by php handler

 

[Livewire]

I think what he meant with coolsite.com is move coolsite.com to the server coolsite2's on, then fix the dns records or whatever they're called for coolsite.com to look at the coolsite2.com server.

And by php handler, I think he means make a php script that loads in place of all jpg's, and redirects all requests for the images to coolsite2. I'm probably highly mistaken, but I think you might be able to pull this off with a .htaccess file (I got one set up for my userbars on my site, it doesn't let you load the image directly, but if you go through the php script it'll load). Try looking for a .htaccess tutorial and see what you can find

 

[Corey]

Use mod_rewrite with the .htaccess

-Corey

 

[Josh]

Use mod_rewrite with the .htaccess

-Corey

How would I do that, could you give me an example?