: How do I redirect direct image paths to my website? I recently noticed that some of the images on my Wordpress website are the pages with the most visits according to Google Analytics. The

@Welton855

This is possible if each image has an owning page and there is a known pattern between them.

Let's say there is an image called: car.jpg and it is owned by page car.html. In this case you can use the .htaccess to do the conversion using referral detection:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https://www.example.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*).jpg$ .html [R=301,L]


This means that anyone not loading the image from a page on your site (www.example.com) will get a redirect to the corresponding page of the same name. You can add other types of images too, say jpg and png by changing the regular expression to ^(.*).(jpg|png)$ or redirect to a more complex URL such as post.php?image=

Now if you have images with names that do not relate to any pages such as car.html having an image called nissan_sentra.png then you will not be able to have an easy mapping and you will have to make a redirect table for each case which is not just more complicated but also rather hard to maintain.

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