Question is, how to protect your images on wordpress. Some time back our server got so much load and bandwidth of server is taken by other websites. preventing images from used by other site is important.
how to protect your images on wordpress
we checked the access to log of my site. we saw the request for my site images through other site. I decided to stop that. Earlier I written good article about this.
https://purabtech.in/protect-images-accessing-server-apache/
I written simple rewrite rule with mod_redirection.
Just open your .htaccess file from your root folder and following code in that.
#Replace ?wordpressapi\.com/ with your blog url
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?wordpressapi\.com/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
#Replace /images/nohotlink.jpg with your "don't hotlink" image url
RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ /images/nohotlink.jpg [L]
dont forget to replace your blog name.
this is useful for not only protecting the images but it saves the bandwidth of server and increase the site speed.