Comments on: CPanel Hotlink Protection Breaks WP Permalinks

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:38:00 +0000

I had this problem before. I turned on hotlink protection recently as I had some issues and was afraid to turn it off (still am) even though ti appears to be working. Before I had the same issue. All pages but my main page vanished. No good luck with any of the WP plugins to stop HLing. Messed my site up even worse usually.

Thanks

Bill

By: thuiswerk

thuiswerk — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:11:30 +0000

I think they fixed this problem in the most recent version of CPanel. Might be me but it looks like they dropped the hotlink function entirely.

By: xt Commerce Templates

xt Commerce Templates — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:20:11 +0000

Yes well I agree with Mick West, it seems to be a CPANEL bug.

By: Mick West

Mick West — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:22:45 +0000

It’s not really a Wordpress bug, it’s a problem with CPanel.

By: motorsport

motorsport — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:49:20 +0000

is this working with the new wordpress release ?
i dont understand much from mod rewrite.

By: Spanish Fork Mechanic

Spanish Fork Mechanic — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:58:58 +0000

Seen WP2.8 yet? I just updated and it has a pretty nice interface. Only problem is it has a bug in how it reads shortcode, so my wp columns plugin is completely messed up. Now I have to go through and add spaces in the shortcode because 2.8 can’t read it otherwise…stupid coding issues…

By: Domain Reviews

Domain Reviews — Wed, 13 May 2009 06:49:12 +0000

One thing about cpanel is that it writes to .htaccess file if you change certain settings, configurations, or extras using cpanel. Sometimes it messes up and doesn’t write to .htaccess right or will even overwrite what you have there. If you are comfortable with it, I would manually edit the .htaccess file to apply changes rather than use cpanel. If you are not comfortable with it. Download your .htaccess file first, then make the changes with cpanel. If it messes up you can simply upload the original/before the changes back. Or compare the differences to see what the problem might be.

By: kotiteatteri

kotiteatteri — Mon, 04 May 2009 06:45:08 +0000

yikes. that looks like a lot of work. Better that I don’t touch those features in cpanel that I’m now aware of. Don’t wanna brake my wordpress cause I probably don’t know how to fix it or search for the bug.

By: Freelance programmer

Freelance programmer — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:38:57 +0000

Thanks so much for putting this up – it’s just solved a major headache of mine!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:20:37 +0000

What’s all the lines commented out?