{"id":33742,"date":"2016-09-19T10:44:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T10:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hostduplex.com\/kb\/?p=196"},"modified":"2016-09-19T10:44:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T10:44:08","slug":"how-to-protect-your-websites-images-from-an-external-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/how-to-protect-your-websites-images-from-an-external-website\/","title":{"rendered":"How to protect your website&#8217;s images from an external website?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">External website can use <code>&lt; IMG \/&gt;<\/code> tag to display an image from your site somewhere else on the internet, and The result of this is that the other website steals your bandwidth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>1.<\/strong> Log into your cPanel account.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>2.<\/strong> In the <strong>Security<\/strong> section, click on the <strong>HotLink Protection<\/strong> Icon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/HotLink-Protection-icon.gif\" alt=\"\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>3.<\/strong> If it displays <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong id=\"hotlinkStatus\">Hotlink protection is currently disabled<\/strong>, click on the <strong>Enable<\/strong> button.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/hotlink-protection-enable.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">How to Configure Hotlink Protection?<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Under <strong>URLs to allow access:<\/strong> you can allow an external website or your own website to have access. For example, if you have a subdomain like demo.example.com, you can add this website&#8217;s URL to the list of allowed websites.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>External website can use &lt; IMG \/&gt; tag to display an image from your site somewhere else on the internet, and The result of this is that the other website steals your bandwidth. &nbsp; 1. Log into your cPanel account. 2. In the Security section, click on the HotLink Protection&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security-cpanel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}