this will prevent indexing Globally . but if you want to index certain files and prevent others

this will index all files on the server EXCEPT zip and rar files .

How to Prevent Images Hotlinking

• most of webmasters wanna prevent that coz it’s simply bandwidth stealing
• you might find many traffic or clicks coming from certain site that uses your images in their own site and screwing up with your bandwidth

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www’.)?bluecirclet.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule ’.(gif|jpg|js|css)$ - [F]

replace bluecirclet.com with your own site and this will show nothing when some one try to use the file types listed in the 4th line .

another method

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www’.)?bluecirclet.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule ’.(gif|jpg)$ http://www.bluecirclet.com/someimage.gif [R,L]

this will show the image in the 4 line when some one tries to hotlink to any images in your site

How to Prevent viewing of .htaccess file

<Files .htaccess>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>

add these lines and your .htaccess won’t be viewed by any browser

How to Redirect Pages

Redirect /oldfolder/somefile.html http://bluecirclet.com/newfile.html

this will redirect files

Redirect /oldfolder/ http://bluecirclet.com/newfolder/

this will redirect entire folder

How to Block Users that came from Certain Domains

• this will work when you find many referrals comes to your site from illegal sites like porn or warez .. etc
• you can block the users comes from there using .htaccess