C Panel

Hotlink Protection

Step. 1. Log in into your cPanel and scroll down to 'Security' Section. Click on 'HotLink Protection' icon




Step. 2. Click 'Enable' button (1) to enable hotlink protection. Enter the allowed URLs in the 'URLs to allow access' text box. (2)




Step. 3. Enter the protected extensions in the 'Extensions to allow' field (1). Make sure you separate each extension with a comma. Click on the 'Allow direct requests' tick box (2) only if you want to allow direct URL access to non-HTML files, such as images.




Step. 4. You can provide a redirection url in case of hot linking has found (1). Finally click on 'Submit' button.


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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.