Don't allow access to example.com/image/pic.jpg using htaccess

Question

I have two domains for the same website. example.com and example2.com .

I don't want the /image/pic.jpg to be accessible for the example.com It means, if someone try to visit example.com/image/pic.jpg , it will show him/her error. But I want it to be accessible for example2.com visitors. So if someone visit example2.com/image/pic.jpg , they will be able to to see the picture

How can I do that using htaccess?

Answer 1

You can do this using mod_rewrite at the top of your root .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)example\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^image/pic\.jpg$ - [F]

The preceding condition checks the requested host (example.com or www.example.com in this example).

This returns a 403 Forbidden if example.com/image/pic.jpg is requested. Otherwise, it doesn't do anything.