Hi Atomizer,
We are currently (intentionally) only supporting Apache’s mod_rewrite (htaccess) via this plugin.
The main reason behind this was that we wanted to make this plugin work and solve tons of problems on users running WordPress on a shared hosting (cPanel, etc).
This is why we currently don’t have the feature to disable hotlinking on nginx.
Also, have in mind that even if we did, you would still had to have access to the nginx’s virtual host configuration file.
Just being curious too, can you share the name/link of your hosting company? They should have some way of adding custom rewrites, so we will be happy to contact them and see what solution they have for your problem (even that, this will be only specific to your site/account and most likely won’t get included in our plugin in the next few versions, until properly tested).
Last but not least – thanks! We appreciate your time spent on check out our plugin! 🙂
Cheers,
WPSecureOps Team
sorry for the late reply
my host is a great one for web/shared hosting – A Small Orange!
they run apache/nginx, but since it’s a shared box any change they make to the nginx config is system-wide – they might be able to make the change on one container if i pester them, but i’m not that worried about it 🙂
I’ve heard some really great stuff for ASO, but never knew they were using nginx for their shared hosting, mainly because that sounds like an insane thing to do (it will totally overload their support teams… ) will require manual adding of rewrites for users….
So its interesting, maybe they have a way to include your own rewrites? Did some googling in their forums, but no success to find any information on this topic.
I’ll be closing this issue, but in case you decide to go and ask them for adding your rewrite rules in their nginx’s config file, don’t hesitate to reopen and share some insights 😉
Cheers,
WPSecureOps Team
