{"id":1456,"date":"2019-02-08T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T10:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2019\/02\/08\/1583475-how-to-enable-hotlink-protection-in-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T09:16:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T09:16:31","slug":"1583475-how-to-enable-hotlink-protection-in-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1583475-how-to-enable-hotlink-protection-in-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to enable hotlink protection in Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">Hotlink protection prevents your media content from being used on other websites by hotlinking it, which consumes your bandwidth.<\/p><h2 id=\"h-enable-hotlink-protection\">Enable hotlink protection<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">To enable it, open your <b><a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-websites\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hpanel.hostinger.com\/websites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Websites<\/a> <\/b>&rarr; <a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-dashboard\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/6627955-how-to-use-the-hosting-dashboard-in-hostinger\/\">Dashboard<\/a> &rarr; Advanced<b>&rarr;<\/b>&nbsp;<b>Hotlink Protection<\/b> on the sidebar and click on it:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/02\/7286c35c-4712-436b-adc2-536d11fe1342.jpg\" alt=\"Hostinger hPanel Advanced menu with Hotlink Protection option highlighted\" data-media-id=\"5216\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Then, choose which <b>types of files<\/b> you would like to protect (or select <b>*<\/b> to choose all).<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">You should also specify where all the requests to your restricted files will be <b>redirected<\/b>. It can be either a specific page of your website or any other website.<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15056\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-10_16-15.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1144\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-10_16-15.png 1144w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-10_16-15-300x154.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-10_16-15-1024x525.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/08\/2026-08-10_16-15-768x394.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1144px) 100vw, 1144px\" \/><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Click <b>Save <\/b>to apply the changes.<\/p><p>To modify the current hotlink protection settings, make the desired changes and click <strong>Save<\/strong>. To completely disable hotlink protection, click <strong>Reset<\/strong>.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Additional resource<\/b><\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">There are other options to enable hotlink protection (via .htaccess, plugins, CDN) &ndash; to learn more about them, refer here: <b><a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-hotlinking-what-is-it-and-why-is-it-bad\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/tutorials\/hotlinking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hotlinking: what is it and why is it bad?<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enabling hotlink protection at Hostinger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1583475-how-to-enable-hotlink-protection-in-hostinger","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/1583475-como-activar-la-proteccion-de-hotlink-en-hpanel-hostinger","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/1583475-comment-activer-la-protection-des-liens-hypertextes-dans-hpanel-hostinger","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/1583475-cara-mengaktifkan-proteksi-hotlink-di-hostinger-hpanel","default":0},{"locale":"pt-BR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/1583475-como-ativar-a-protecao-hotlink-no-hpanel-hostinger","default":0},{"locale":"uk-UA","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/ua\/support\/1583475-\u044f\u043a-\u0443\u0432\u0456\u043c\u043a\u043d\u0443\u0442\u0438-\u0437\u0430\u0445\u0438\u0441\u0442-hotlink-\u0443-hpanel-hostinger","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15058,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions\/15058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}