Cpanel: Hotlink Protection Question

[SingleDaddyof2 0]

When I enable Hotlink Protection in Xisto's cPanel for my website (http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/), all of my images disappear. The "Urls to Allow Access:" box lists "http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/; and "http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/;. I would think this would let me use my own images in my website. I disabled Hotlink Protection and my images have reappeared. How can I enable Hotlink Protection and still have my images displayed on my website?

[coder2000 0]

how are you loading your images? relative or absolute paths? I don't reall think it matters that much. Hotlink works on my site so I have no idea what the problem would be but how you are accessing them.

[NilsC 0]

This is how I have mine set:

link dead.

and it works. This is unchecked: "Allow direct requests (ie. entering the url to an image in your browser)" I'm using a subdirectory for all images called "images" (I have such an imagination" Nils

Edited October 8, 2016 by OpaQue (see edit history)

[SingleDaddyof2 0]

Here's an example of the img tags I use in my code:

<img style="border-width: thick; border-color: white; border-style: groove; " src="images/andystadiumbaz151x500gif.gif" width=500 height=141>

I also have unchecked the box labelled "Allow direct requests (ie. entering the url to an image in your browser)".

[NilsC 0]

 

If the preceding link say user posted image hotlink protection work, if it don't work you'll see the picture

 

Nils

[SingleDaddyof2 0]

At the time of this post, I have hotlink protection disabled and I can see the picture. The problem is that when I enable hotlink protection, my own website won't show the images. And like I mentioned before, the "Urls to Allow Access:" box lists:

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/
http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

I'm still stumped...

[NilsC 0]

I'm just testing here. so bear with me let me know if this image show up?

 

 

Nils

This is my post, I edited it!

I'm just testing here. so bear with me :) let me know if this image show up?[img]http://ngc.astahost.com/images/LindyLogo216x132.jpg[/img]Nils

[SingleDaddyof2 0]

Thanks for your help Nils. I don't see an image in your last post, just "user posted image".

[NilsC 0]

That image still show up on my website, but is blocked here http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ it's the top left logo.

did you click activate when you entered the links? if you make any changes you need to click activate again.

Nils

[SingleDaddyof2 0]

I don't quite understand...click "activate"? Where is that located? When I entered what link?EDIT: Oh, the activate button in cPanel's Hotlink Protection page...yes, I did click it enable Hotlink Protection. That caused all of the website images to disappear. I then went back to cPanel's Hotlink Protection page and clicked "Disable" which resulted in the return of the images to my website.

[NilsC 0]

In the cPanel. this is an image of my cPanel I circled activate in red.Nils

[SingleDaddyof2 0]

My cPanel Hotlink Protection settings are the same as yours, except of ourse I have my domain/subdomains listed in the "Urls to Allow Access" box.I just now enabled Hotlink Protection. Let's see if we can see the images now.

[SingleDaddyof2 0]

At first I thought the problem was solved because I could see the images. But then I noticed one image was missing. I refreshed the page and many more images disappeared. I refreshed it again and all of the images were gone. So I still have the same problem.

[NilsC 0]

looks OK to me now, I can still see images on your website.

Nils

I see 25 pictures on the right side of this page http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/
http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Edited March 3, 2005 by NilsC (see edit history)

[SingleDaddyof2 0]

What happens if you refresh the page? I still have Hotlink Protection enabled.