While fighting with hotlink there is ONE big problem. Nginx did not always correctly handle the allowed websites (such as feedburner images.google.com, etc.). Sometimes nginx redirects people to "nohotlinking.png" (see the code below) on the allowed websites and even on main website. Any ideas? The code: location ~ \.(gif|png|jpg|jpeg)$ { valid_referers none blocked seby vodoley213 - Other discussion