Hotlink Protection
What is it Hotlink Protection?
Hotlink Protection prevents other websites from using files, photos from your website. It will be possible to link files that you do not specify. Ex: Let's say you use an image on your website, and someone else wants to use the same image. If someone uses your image's URL on their website, every time the image is accessed, the image is downloaded from your website. As a result, bandwidth is being used with each access to the image. When enabling Hotlink, it will no longer be possible to carry out this process. Here's how to activate Hotlink protection:
Once you are logged into cPanel, simply click on Hotlink Protection;
Check the domain you want to protect in “URLs to allow access”;
In “Block direct access to the following extensions (separated by comma)”, enter the extensions you want to block.
Click “Allow direct requests”.
Now just click “Send”.
That's it, hotlink protection is enabled on your website.
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