Order of codes in htaccess file

Also just curious, I don’t know why”” # Options +FollowSymlinks “”is used for??

its not its commented out ‘#’ means comment

‘FollowSymlinks’ is completely un related to redirects;- it tells apache whether or not to allow “follow” symbolic links which is a type of folder alias on unix file systems.

First off, avoid adding anything between Begin wp and end wp as wordpress or any plugin might inadvertently delete any of your changes/additions

Their basically marker so it knows where to edit the file.

Secondly add your directives one by one that way you can figure out which one is causing the problem.

so delete this, and the other block

#disable hotlinking of images with forbidden or custom image option
RewriteEngine on
# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https://mydomain.com.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png|bmp)$ [NC, F, L]

try adding this below the end wp

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?PutYourDomainHere.com [NC]
RewriteRule \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|bmp)$ - [NC,F,L]

Replace ‘PutYourDomainHere.com’ with you actually domain name

test your site, if its still working then the rules haven’t broke anything

use this tool to see if you can hotlink an image

Hi Sorry for the bad delayed response.
I will try your solution and let you know.
One more question, does RewriteEngine ON goes with all the blocks or is just written once??
Thanks.

Hi there, I may be a bit late but maybe this will help…

I added the following code without any problems at the very top of my .htaccess file with a line space below it…

#disable hotlinking of images with forbidden or custom image option
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?mydomain.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?google.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?feeds2.feedburner.com/myfeedburnername [NC]
RewriteRule \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$ – [NC,F,L]

Notes:

1. Replace ‘mydomain.com with your domain
2. Replace myfeedburnername with your domain (I’m not 100% sure this is needed but I was told to use my feedburner name also – go to your Feedburner.com account or create one)

Hope this helps.