its easily done using something like this (ive ommitted the 301 at the end, for instance)

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^.*icky-domain.com.*$
RewriteRule ^/.*$ http://www.somewhere-else.com

be very careful with though, and dont mess with anyone coming from Google. Google hates [wiki]cloaking[/wiki].

do I have to do each one seperately. or could I do a set of referer's and the rule ones? how would I do that? Even one at a time this is definitely gonna help a ton. I get a lot of traffic that I really need going elsewhere but the buggers are hopeless when it comes to getting them to change links. Technically they're referer spammers but I can use the traffic myself as long as it goes the right place. :)

lol, I just got a great idea..wonder how fun it would be to set up something like this that spoofs a clickthrough for some affiliate ID

I know thats not kosher but if it were done for refering spam domains .. hmmm, that might be fun :P

Back to your question:

if you want to send one referer to one page and another referer to another page, yes you would need to do it sperately. If theyre all going to the same page then you could just do something like this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^.*icky-domain.com.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^.*another-icky-domain.com.*$
RewriteRule ^/.*$ http://www.somewhere-else.com 

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Back to my thought above.. given the right format of the clickthrough it wouldnt be hard to do that..

RewriteRule ^/.*$ http://www.gunbroker.com/auction/SellerAuctions.asp?User=id:51588

evil, very evil. how fun it would be to send poker referers back to a site that provides some sort of poker site affiliation, send porn referers to a porn site, and so on. dear lord, the possibilities 8|

wouldn't it be
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^*.icky-domain.com.*$
----------------------------------------^
with the *. rather than .* ?

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www\.)?icky-domain.com.*$ [OR]

and no.

Check the first paragraph on this page: http://www.regular-expressions.info/

regexs dont neccessarily follow the standard rules you might expect with wildcards.

you can play with it, theres a few applications out there that let you spoof your domain so you can check your rewrite rules, I dont have the links handy though.

For the most part I know the exact domains, they use a variety but they don't seem to change. I'll mess with this, so far no luck (testing using one of my own addresses as the referer) but this is the right track, I just need to fiddle and learn how to apply it to my particular setup.

Thanks a ton Whoo. :)

yw, and good luck. If you know the exact domains..

you can do this too:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://www.ickydomain.com$ [OR]

theres a 100 ways Im sure..

I'm not having any luck. I can't get it to redirect.

I'm including an example from the .htaccess doc that was auto generated to deal with image linking so you can see the syntax used there, it used an extra !

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.wolfweb.us/.*$      [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.wolfweb.us$      [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.bigstockphoto.com/bb/.*$      [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.bigstockphoto.com/bb$      [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp)$ - [F,NC]

Then, under that with a line space between I've got:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.wolfweb.us/.*$      [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.wolfweb.us$      [NC]
RewriteRule ^/.*$ http://blogs.wolfweb.us

I've tried with and without the extra ! and other variations of my stock domain name. this isn't the actual referal I want to do but it's one I can use to test and get things working for. I used your [OR] as well as the NC version it used. I'm still digging up info elsewhere but there's lots of unhelpful sites for every one I find with any hints :(

I just tried

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^.*wolfweb.us/.*$      [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^.*wolfweb.us$      [OR]
RewriteRule ^/.*$ http://blogs.wolfweb.us

with no luck. the RewriteEngine on is at the top of the previous group of commands, do I need it for each set or is once on enough?

the problem was a / instead of \ in RewriteRule ^/.*$ http://www.somewhere-else.com

---edit----
hmmm, or not, lol, that just sent ALL traffic to the other address
I just noticed I'm not using the current release version so I'm doing the upgrade to Dawn. That might explain the problem. Hopefully the upgrade goes smoothly, it's uploading as I type. I did my backups but it's still frustrating when things don't go smoothly. :)

Updated to the Dawn release, working nicely. I went back to your original code for the htaccess, no luck. So I'm at a loss. Obviously I'm either missing something, doing something wrong, or there's a problem with the code and my particular setup.

(below is just a test to make sure my image theft block is still operating)
http://www.wolfweb.us/images/nikbg.jpg

if you like why not pm me one of the domains youre trying to redirect, and to where.. Ill see what I can come up with using exactly what you are trying to do.

just so anyone interested knows what the final solution was:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www\.)?ickydomain.com.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.someplace-else.com/  [R=301,L]

you can only do one at a time, when you do multiple conditions it seems to break it. Not sure why yet. Doing one at a time works though.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www\.)?ickydomain.com.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www\.)?domain2.com.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.someplace-else.com/  [R=301,L]

I'll bet youre not doing the OR's correctly :P. also, the last line does not need an OR.

I'll mess with that, but it didn't use OR's for the allow list for image linking and that works. Maybe just the different context but you'd think if it works for one type it'd work for the other... *shrug* list then rule obviously is more efficient, my list probably bites into the speed improvement of Dawn over the release I was running, but that's not an immediate crisis so I can work on it another time. :)

Thanks a ton for all your help.

Remy