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How to use Hotlink Protection in cPanel Web Hosting ?


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                          Silicon House cPanel comes with free Hotlink Protection. By using that option you can able to prevent the bandwidth of your website. Hotlink is use to linking the files or images from one website to another website which is hosted in other server. In Linux reseller Hosting, If hotlink is disabled for your website, any one can link the files and images to their website.


                          To enable hotlink protection, follow these steps:

                          [1]  Login to your cPanel, Go to Security section
                          [2]  Click HotLink Protection. Click Enable
                          [3]  In the URLs to allow access text box, type the URLs of the web sites that can access your files
                          [4]  In the Block direct access for these extensions text box, type the file extensions for which you want to block direct access.

                          [5]  In the Redirect request to this URL text box, you can optionally type a URL. Users from blocked sites will see this page instead of the hotlinked file.
                          [6] Click Submit.

                          To disable hotlink protection, follow these steps:

                          [1]  Login to your cPanel, Go to Hotlink Protection under Security section
                          [2] Click Disable.

                          Whenever any one visit or download from the particular site means, bandwidth will be consumed from your website. This is also called bandwidth theft. To avoid this kind of bandwidth theft or hotlink , you can enable the hotlink production for website in your cpanel web hosting.