Title: Prevent Hotlinking – Directory Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Prevent Hotlinking – Directory * [ashobiz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashobiz/) * (@ashobiz) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/prevent-hotlinking-directory/) * Hi.. * I have hosted all my files (exe,zip,rar) files in Dropbox… I have rewrite the dropbox url into [http://www.mydomain.com/go/fileame](http://www.mydomain.com/go/fileame) using a wordpress plugin… if someone go to [http://www.mydomain.com/go/fileame](http://www.mydomain.com/go/fileame), then they can download the file… now i need to prevent hotlinking of those file… is there any way to stop by using the directory “/go/” ??? * please help me… Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) * [fonglh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fonglh/) * (@fonglh) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/prevent-hotlinking-directory/#post-2131937) * you can add some rewrite rules to your .htaccess file. * The following site seems to describe how to do that. [http://altlab.com/htaccess_tutorial.html](http://altlab.com/htaccess_tutorial.html) * Thread Starter [ashobiz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashobiz/) * (@ashobiz) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/prevent-hotlinking-directory/#post-2131965) * Thanks,,, i fixed my problem… Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) The topic ‘Prevent Hotlinking – Directory’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [Hotlinking](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/hotlinking/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 2 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [ashobiz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashobiz/) * Last activity: [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/prevent-hotlinking-directory/#post-2131965) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics