Hotlink Code .. Which .htaccess file?

Hi..

So I’m hosting my site with a hosting company, everything works fine. Today I decided to implement the code to prevent hotlinking for images and files (zip,tar).

As you know you have several accounts under 1 single account with a CPanel host. I want to apply the no hotlinking code to “site 2”

So the structure is:

public_html
public_html/site1
public_html/site2
public_html/site3

There is a .htaccess in all the “site” folders.

I have the code below..

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https://(.+\.)?my-site\.com/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ /files/hotlink.jpg [L]

Where do I place it?

public_html/.htaccess

or

public_html/site 2/.htaccess

When I place it in public_html/site 2/.htaccess I get the “server error 500”

I place it like below..

RewriteEngine on

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https://(.+\.)?my-site\.com/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ /files/hotlink.jpg [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

If I put it in the root (public_html) It doesnt work at all.

Any help at all is appreciated ..