: How to check if someone is using my website resources? How can I check whether someone is using the resources hosted on my website? I have a website (coded in PHP) and I have uploaded a

@LarsenBagley505

This guide goes over protecting your sites resources using PHP
safalra.com/programming/php/prevent-hotlinking/

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@Rambettina238

There is no way to find out any information about requests made directly to images hosted on your site using PHP. Since the image served up statically, no PHP script is executed.

You could keep all your images outside your webroot, and load them all through a PHP script that:


Checks the query string to figure out which image to serve
Makes sure the image exists
Outputs a suitable content-type header
Outputs a suitable set of cache control headers
Reads the image data and outputs it


It would also have to deal with If-Modified-Since requests and so on. (So this would be a lot of effort to get right).

Once that was done, you could log any of the information in $_SERVER, including $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] which would tell you the URL of a website linking to or embedding your image (providing the user of the browser did nothing to conceal the referrer header).

You are really much better off just getting the referer information from your webserver's logs.

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@Deb1703797

You can log the referer:

$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];


But please note that this is added by the client and can be overridden. But it should give you some indication to how your site is used.

You can also use something like google analytics to track the users.

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