I know I can prevent most hotlinking by using the .htaccess. But my question is how can I find out who is hotlinking. I want to know what forum or site or the exact URL that is hotlinking my images. Is there anyway to find out? I checked my webalizer logs and it shows the forum but it does not show the exact page that hotlinked, thats what I would like to know if possible. Thanks.

tail your domains apache log and look for offenders. Or grep your logs for a specific file name you know are being linked to.

Thanks for replying but I'm not too familiar with what you are talking about. what exactly is tail my domains apache log or grep my logs? The only 2 logs I see are xfer logs, custom logs, error logs.

tail -f /usr/local/apache/domlogs/domain.com
grep file.name /usr/local/apache/domlogs/domain.com | more

You may have to alter the abovementioned path depending on where apache stores your domain logs.

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ahhhh okay thanks. I guess I can only do that if I have shell access to my webserver which I dont think I do. I'll have to look into it.

Thanks again.