• Resolved astridhunt1

    (@astridhunt1)


    Thanks for such a great plugin!

    After enabling the hotlink prevention function, all of the images I’ve found that are hot linked to on my site are showing up as broken links on the infringing sites (which is great!).

    Except for one site which is hotlinking over 400 times to images on my site. I’m stumped as to how the plugin is preventing hotlinking to from the other sites but not this one particular site.

    Any ideas?

    I was considering using this code in the .htaccess instead and disabling the hotlink function in the plugin.

    /* Prevent image hotlinking in WordPress */
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?yourwebsite.com [NC]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?google.com [NC]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?facebook.com [NC]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?twitter.com [NC]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?scoop.it [NC]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?pinterest.com [NC]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?quora.com [NC]
    RewriteRule \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$ – [F]

    Is this a viable option? Or is there awaiting period before hotlinks to my images are broken?

    Thanks

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  • Plugin Contributor mbrsolution

    (@mbrsolution)

    Hi, can you share some information about this site that is linking images from your site?

    Thank you

    Thread Starter astridhunt1

    (@astridhunt1)

    Thanks so much for your speedy reply!

    I played around with the other plugins I’m running to see if they are interfering with AIOWP. And it looks like one of them was. I’ve deleted it since it was pretty much obsolete and now the link on the infringing site is broken and returns a 403 error.

    I’m assuming that’s what it’s supposed to do, return a 403 error. Is that correct?

    Thanks ??

    Plugin Contributor mbrsolution

    (@mbrsolution)

    Hi, I am glad you found the culprit plugin.

    I’m assuming that’s what it’s supposed to do, return a 403 error. Is that correct?

    Yes that is correct because you cannot link to a protected image from another site.

    The 403 Forbidden error is an HTTP status code which means that accessing the page or resource you were trying to reach is absolutely forbidden for some reason.

    Let me know if you need more information or help. If your issue is resolved, can you mark this support thread as resolved.

    Thank you

    Thread Starter astridhunt1

    (@astridhunt1)

    Thanks for clearing that up.

    Excellent plugin and outstanding support. ??

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