Firewall – Prevent prevent Hotlinks

This might be something to ask your host provider to look at….

But before you do that can you paste the htaccess code which is inserted for the hotlink feature when you enable it.
Do the following:

1) Enable the hotlink feature and then take a look at your .htaccess file for the section in between the tags:
#AIOWPS_PREVENT_IMAGE_HOTLINKS_START
#AIOWPS_PREVENT_IMAGE_HOTLINKS_END

Copy that code and show us what it looks like.

Yesterday, I had contacted my Hosting Sever to ask fro help re lost images. They searched and placed a # to a line from the .htaccess file:
#RewriteRule \.(gif|jpe?g?|png)$ – [F,NC,L]

Once this was enacted the images returned.

Below is code – not sure if this is also related to other plugins in conflict???

#AIOWPS_PREVENT_IMAGE_HOTLINKS_START
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} \.(gif|jpe?g?|png)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://justframes\.com\.au/wp [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpe?g?|png)$ – [F,NC,L]
</IfModule>
#AIOWPS_PREVENT_IMAGE_HOTLINKS_END
# END All In One WP Security

Why is the URL different in the .htaccess code (justframes.com.au) versus the URL you gave in first entry (sandfordrifleclub.com.au)?

I was on this site at the time, trtying to fix it as it also has the same issue. The client can’t log in once I activate the rename login. Thus I simply grabbed that section of code.

The particular edit (#RewriteRule \.(gif|jpe?g?|png)$ – [F,NC,L]) done by the ISP Hosting help center was actually on https://www.surfscapephotography.com

I’m out of time at the moment away for 4 days – I’ll try further diagnostics next week. Dennis

Just happened again to brand new site published live yesterday.
https://www.yourdayyourway.com.au/wp/!getin2 As of right now, no access to wp-admin

Note I had refreshed and deleted browsing history yesterday including cookies, however I was under the impression this rename login was just URL not cookie based.

I’m using the Theme base; Weaver II Pro. Just have to leave now, so will have to revert to ftp fix & rename plugins folder to get in quick and turn off All in One WP Sec & Firewall rename login.

Hi WpSolutions – I’m back on air.

Over the last 6 weeks I have had direct email contact at TIPS re this “rename URL” on a few sites (as per above)- particularly re: https://www.bluepacific-the-entrance.com discussions with IVY on 5th June – sorry but no resolution.

I mentioned I was using your Plugin on a number of sites, yes only the free version but if it worked, then clients will be prepared to invest in it. Following the issues with the sites above last week, I thought I’d re-visit Blue-Pacific as I had just last week updated their theme. I’d previously removed the ‘rename URL’ option from your plugin on this site, as it failed.
Today I just created a test:
1. Via FTP rename Plugins folder, then Log in to dashboard wp-admin.
2. Re-activate a theme plugin ‘Weaver II theme extras’
3. Re-activate All in One WP Sec & Firewall (all other plugins off)
4. re-activate – rename URL login
5. Log out of site Dashboard
6. Go to new URL Login in address & Successfully Log back into Dashboard.
7. Log Out of dashboard
8. Google Chrome – delete all history for last hour (except Licences)
9. Go to new site URL Login – FAILURE – no such page
10.Via FTP rename Plugins folder, then Log in to dashboard wp-admin.
11. Re-activate a theme plugin ‘Weaver II theme extras’
12. Re-activate All in One WP Sec & Firewall (all other plugins off)
13. turn off ‘rename URL’
14. normal wp-admin access only
15. Clear browsing history in Chrome
16. Log in to normal wp-admin – Success.

Unless your Plugin is totally non compatiable with Weaver II Pro, I’m lost as to cause of failure to access new URL on these sites.

Perhaps you can PM me so I can discuss in detail & provide you website access to review?
Regards, Dennis

Hi appleisle,
I’m a little confused now regarding the type of issue you are asking assistance for – initially this thread was regarding the problem you had with images not being displayed when using the prevent hotlink feature.

However your last two replies appear to be for a totally different issue.
In order to keep the discussion on topic can you please raise another thread for the other issue and name it appropriately?
Also if there are any more observations and info you wanted to make regarding the image hotlink issue please continue to reply to this thread.

Okay, will do. Yes the Hotlink issue did not get solved other than me not activating it.