Hotlink Protection Question

[snowjay]

Hi,

 

Is there a way to *disable* hotlink protection for certain subdirectories within my website? I want the protection on for the main root directory, but I want to be able to hotlink to pictures in the "temp/" directory. Under Cpanel, we can only add URLs which are allowed to hotlink.

 

Thanks,

 

 

Ian

[TCH-Andy]

Hi Ian,

 

You can not do it via Cpanel.

 

You would need to do it by editing the .htaccess manually, and that really depends on how familiar you are with programming, and willing to dive in

[snowjay]

Hi, thanks for your reply... is there a guide somewhere I can follow? Where is the .htaccess file itself?

[TCH-Bruce]

There can be an .htaccess file in each folder. Normally though it's in your root "public_html" folder.

 

Here are links to guides.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/htaccess.html

http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess.shtml

http://www.freewebmasterhelp.com/tutorials/htaccess/