What is Hotlinking and How to Prevent It (on Apache and Nginx)



What is Hotlinking and How to Prevent It (on Apache and Nginx)

What is Hotlinking and How to Prevent It (on Apache and Nginx)

Learn how to stop other websites from hotlinking your images. In this tutorial, we will prevent hotlinking on Apache and Nginx web servers. When an an image is displayed on another website via a link, this is hotlinking. This is not only stealing the image, but also the hosting resources of the website.

Code snippets and more at https://tonyteaches.tech/prevent-hotlinking/

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