Hot-Linking - .htaccess not working

[Beauford]

I have read about a hundred pages on hotlinking today and I have been trying to implement an .htaccess file to prevent it, but so far nothing is working.

What I want to do is stop people from directly downloading from my DL directory.

i.e. www.mysite.com/download/myfile.avi

If they type in the above I want an error page displayed.

Currently I have an .htaccess file in the root directory of my site, as follows.


RewriteEngine on
RewriteOptions inherit

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}!^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.mysite.ca/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*.(avi|AVI|mpg|MPG|wmv|WMV|swf|SWF)$ - [F]

This is very simplistic, but I just want to get it working, then I can add other options or whatever.

Any help on what I am doing wrong is appreciated.