Hotlinking
is when another web site owner links directly to one or more of
your images or multimedia files and includes it on their web page.
Not only is this theft of your intellectual property, you are paying
for the bandwidth used by that site. Refer to this article
for more information on hotlinking.
CPanel
can prevent hotlinking by only allowing named sites (such as your
own web site) to access files on your site.
To
prevent hotlinking:
-
Click
on the HotLink Protection button on the home
page.
-
Enter
any other addresses that you will allow to access your site
other than the provided defaults in the central area.
-
Enter
the protected extensions in the Extensions to allow
field. Make sure you separate each extension with a comma.
-
Enter
the address to redirect any hotlinking to in the Url
to Redirect to field.
-
Click
on the Allow direct requests tick box if you
want to allow direct URL access to non-HTML files, such as images.
-
Click
on the Activate button.
Topics:
Disabling
hotlink protection
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