CloudBlue Commerce allows you to protect your websites from unauthorized hotlinking. Hotlinking is when another website owner links directly to one or more of your images or multimedia files and includes them in their web page. Not only is this a theft of your intellectual property, but you are also paying for the bandwidth used by that site.
Enabling hotlink protection prevents certain websites from accessing files on your website.
To enable hotlink protection on your website, perform the following steps:
Go to Websites, click the name of the desired domain. At the opened page click Web Hosting Settings and then select the Advanced tab. Open Hot link protection sub-tab.
- The HotLink Protection option is disabled by default. The status icon is grayed-out.
- Click on the Enable button to activate hotlink protection. The status changes to Enabled. Your website is protected from hotlinking.
- Click the Edit button to set up hotlink protection parameters. The Configure HotLink protection screen appears.
- The following configuration parameters are available:
- URLs to Allow Access – Specify the URL(s) to the files available for hotlinking.
- File Extension to Deny – Specify file extension(s) to deny access to the files having these extension(s).
- URL to Redirect to – Specify the URL(s), the user will be redirected to, trying to open protected files.
- Click the Submit button to save the new configuration.