# Nginx - hotlinking

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-hotlinking/212595>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [October 7, 2011, 12:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-hotlinking/212595 "2011-10-07T12:25:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![dubstep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@dubstep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dubstep)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 12:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-hotlinking/212595/1 "2011-10-07T12:25:27Z")

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Hi Igor S.,

Could you please help how to stop badguys from hotlinking my images.

I try a lot of code and nothing happens

I don’t know which file to edit

I use this code in sudo nano /usr/local/nginx/sites-available/

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# Stop deep linking or hot linking

location /uploads/ {  
valid\_referers none blocked [www.example.com](http://www.example.com) [example.com](http://example.com);  
if ($invalid\_referer) {  
return 403;  
}  
}

But I’m always have an error.

I’ll appreciate your help.

thank you very much!

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**Author:** ![SSIngSGunther\_FlS\_t](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@SSIngSGunther\_FlS\_t](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SSIngSGunther_FlS_t)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 7:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-hotlinking/212595/2 "2011-10-07T19:36:03Z")

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Try posting your full config, it must be matching another location  
perhaps.  
Otherwise it looks fine.