Hotlink images

  • I have just performed this search:inurl:villasdiani.com -site:villasdiani.com in order to search for hotlines and showed that my images are on other site. They all look like scams. Is there something I can do about this? Any advice please?

    Thank you very much

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  • You need to enable hotlink protection for your images so that other sites cannot hotlink to the images hosted on your server.

    RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?yourdomain.com [NC]
RewriteRule \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$ - [NC,F,L]

    Adding that bit of code to your site’s .htaccess file (make sure to update yourdomain.com with your site’s URL) might do the trick. The site advises to create a new .htaccess file from the code above, but if you already have a .htaccess file, replacing might lose some data so it’s not recommended.

    Also if you’re a cPanel user, this article may help.

    https://support.hostgator.com/articles/cpanel/what-is-hot-linking-how-do-i-enable-and-disable-hotlink-protection

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