: How to deal with URLs that has been hotlinked? My website assets have been hot linked by many other websites. I doubt whether these are responsible for the downtimes on my site. How should

@Pierce454

To stop hotlinking you can add the following to your .htaccess file. Replace example.com on line 3 with your own domain name. Also add or remove any file extensions on line 4

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www.)example.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .(gif|jpg|jpeg|png|bmp|zip|rar|mp3)$ - [F]


Maybe you prefer some mischief and want to serve alternate content when hotlinking is detected.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www.)example.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .(gif|jpg)$ www.example.com/backside.gif [R,L]

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