Comments on: Prevent image hotlinking in WordPress

By: Glitch

Glitch — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 05:23:42 +0000

Strange, I’ll look into it. Perhaps those images where cached in your browser.

By: Babaji M P

Babaji M P — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:58:26 +0000

After googling for sometime, i found that the .htaccess file if placed inside wp-contents/uploads folder, it prevents hotlinking.

But i used the exact code you provided.

Now it’s working. Thanks Glitch.

By: Babaji M P

Babaji M P — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 23:44:14 +0000

Hello Glitch,

1. By mistake i forgot to change yoursitehere.com and uploaded the .htaccess file.

Immediately i was able to see the changes in my site theme. All the theme images showed the hotlinking.jpe images.

2. I corrected yoursitehere.com to mysite.com

Everything got resolved.

But, I still find my site images on other sites (Both Blogger & WordPress sites). It’s not showing the hotlinking.jpe image which i have uploaded to the respective folder.

Kindly let me know further. Thank You.

By: Glitch

Glitch — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:10:41 +0000

Hello Dave,

Please read note 2 in the original post. It describes why I added these lines. Of course you can decide to leave them out.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:44:36 +0000

Thanks for a very useful post and the answer to a common problem, but what is line 6 with the ip address for Google all about and is it necessary?

6 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://216.239.*$ [NC]