RewriteCond and RewriteRule

The original reason for this page was that I suspected that someone is "Hotlnking" directly to some of my images from Facebook.

While this doesn't bother me too much I would like to be able to put some code in my .htaccess file to port the Facebook user somewhere else on this website.

On further inspection I am not so sure that anyone had linked to my images but it did give me a chance to look at the code to prevent this from happening. In addition, I may wish to use the redirect in the future.

In .htaccess:

If you have access to the webserver configuration, as you would if you ran a Linux server running Apache, then you can place all of the redirection directives in the appropriate files.

The difference between REWRITE and REDIRECT

Scott Forsyth says:

Simply put, a redirect is a client-side request to have the web browser go to another URL. This means that the URL that you see in the browser will update to the new URL. A rewrite is a server-side rewrite of the URL before it’s fully processed by IIS. This will not change what you see in the browser because the changes are hidden from the user.