Enabling Hotlink Protection in cPanel

[Bad Dobby]

Hi ... I have been trying for over a year to get hotlinking protection enabled .. but regardless of any combination of settings, other sites are still hotlinking. What is the secret combo on settings to get this to work.

In my cPanel .. it is very confusing .. not to mention that the instructions contradict themselves ... even words spelled incorrectly.

Anyway .. it doesn't work and my Web Host provider says they do not know what to do.

Any advice?

EDIT .. after running a search here at cPanel forums .. it is clear that the cPanel feature DOES NOT WORK for hotlink protection ... and that is why my web host does not know what to do. Drats

When will cPanel address this? So that it works cleanly from the cPanel without all the workarounds that are being mentioned?

[BrightAdmin]

Hi Bad Dobby,

Try to set rewrite rules for hotlink protection in your apache or htaccess file. This might help you to sort out this issue.

Regards,

[bamasbest]

As well, check the changelogs. Many of the bugs that have been recently discussed here at the forum are now being addressed.

Could it be.... 9.x.x -Stable real soon?