1. Log in to your control panel, scroll down to the security section and click on ‘Hotlink Protection’ icon.
2. Hotlink protection prevents other websites from directly linking to certain files (typically images) on your website. You will want to prevent this if you have copyrighted images, or to simply save on bandwidth usage. You will first want to make sure your own sites are listed here, so you are able to hotlink to your images.
3. Enter all the file types you want to be protected on the ‘extension to allow’ column, then enter a URL you want to redirect to in the ‘URL to redirect to’ column, for anyone who tries to hotlink to your files and/or images. If you want someone to be able to manually enter the URL of a protected file, check the ‘allow direct request’ box here. Last but not least, click on the ‘submit’ button. And you have successfully enabled hotlink protection.
4. To disable the hotlink protection, simply click on the disable button here.
