Move Drupal site, but 403 permission denied for JUST images!

Typically I migrate sites by copying the directory to its new location, creating a blank database, resetting the settings.php file, then enabling the Backup/Migrate module and importing the old database. All my modules, settings, everything is usually correct. Except the images. They're all broken, giving a 403 Permission denied when I try to access them. I initially wasted 10+ hours troubleshooting Windows permissions before I figured out it was a Drupal problem. Specifically, at the end of your htaccess file for a live site you need to check for this: RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://awesome.com/.*$ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://awesome.com$ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://pretty.awesome.com/.*$ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://pretty.awesome.com$ [NC] RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp)$ - [F,NC] I think this addendum is put in to prevent people from hotlinking your files. So what it's doing, is preventing me from putting src="http://awesome.com/freakingawesome.jpg" on www.jacob-garbe.com. It won't load it. The problem one runs into, however, is that when you migrate a site to a new URL without a clean install, all of a sudden your htaccess file is saying "sorry, you can't load these images because the request isn't coming from the right site". So update these lines when you move your sites!