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How to Enable Hotlink Protection cPanel

Hotlinking can be described as the process of another website linking directly to files that are hosted on our website.

For instance, another site’s web page may include direct links to image files stored on our website.
In this scenario, when visitors go to the other site’s web page, our site serves the image files. In other words, our bandwidth is getting stolen.

Fortunately, we can prevent this from occurring by configuring the hotlink protection in cPanel.

Our experts have put together these steps to help us enable Hotlink protection:

1. First, we have to log in to cPanel.
2. Then, head to the Security section on the Tools page and click Hotlink Protection if the Jupiter theme is in use.

   If we are using the Paper Lantern theme, we can click the Hotlink Protection in the Security section of the cPanel home page.
3. Next, click Enable.
4. After that, we have to type the URLs of the sites that we want o give access to our files in the URLs to allow access text box. Furthermore, cPanel suggests local URLs automatically.
5. Additionally, we can also add the file extensions to which you want to block direct access by adding them in the Block direct access.
6. Then we can also optionally type a URL in the Redirect request to the following URL text box. This leads the users from blocked sites to see this page instead.
7. Click Submit.

Alternatively, we can disable Hotlink protection by clicking Disable in the Hotlink Protection Section.

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Conclusion

In summary, our Support Techs demonstrated how to enable Hotlink Protection cPanel.