Hot Link Protection

sunkist

Oct 18 2005, 03:53 AM

Hi:

I have noticed that MySpace and Xanga have been using some of my images. I am getting hits for them, so I checked out the sites and actually found my histology art on peoples blogs.

I am trying to enable hotlinking protection, so that they do not continue to steal my bandwidth.

Yet, when I click on activate on CPANEL, nothing happens. It just keeps saying "Hotlinking disabled".

Please help! I do not want people linking to my images for use as backgrounds and art on their sites or blogs. And I do not my/Trap17 bandwidth to be stolen.

Sunkist

BuffaloHELP

Oct 18 2005, 04:35 AM

Enter URLS that are allowed to view your images. Including your site's name is a MUST. Otherwise you won't be able to see your images. Then click on "ACTIVATE" Your page will go to a confirmation page and then click "GO BACK" You should see it in bold red letters "ENABLED"

guangdian

Oct 19 2005, 04:07 AM

hey,bufalou.
i am ever being enable the hotlink protect.but after i enabled it.the images on my page can not display.
what i should do with that.
i wanna made the image displayed on my page but not displayed on oter sites.
and can you help me of that.i'm pleased with that,thank you.
guangdian

sunkist

Oct 20 2005, 02:45 AM

Hi:

Thanks for your suggeston.

When I go to the "hotlinks protection" area, there is a box with all my URL's already listed in it. When I click "activate" nothing happens. I am not transported to a new screen.

If I hit "disable" I see the status bar, and go to the screen you were talking about. But it looks like my "activate" button doesn't work. Anything else I need to be doing?

Thanks again.

Sunkist

ZeroHawk

Oct 20 2005, 03:00 AM

If you are seeing the "disable" button, you have protection on. If you are seeing the "activate" button, it's not on. If nothing happens when you hit activate, try refreshing.

Oh BTW thanks Buffalo I had a problem with images not showing. I was wondering why and I guess this explains it.

If your pics aren't showing up with protection on try uploading them on an image host such as imageshack.us and hotlinking instead of having the uploaded image for a temprary solution.

sunkist

Oct 20 2005, 05:42 AM

But I am seeing both buttons

BuffaloHELP

Oct 20 2005, 06:16 AM

guangdian
You can't see your images from your site because you didn't enter your site in the text box field. Go take a look at the cPanel demo (found in my link) and click the Hot Link Protection icon to see for examples.

sunkist
You will see both buttons (Activate, Disable). After entering your website address in the text field, all you have to do is click on the ACTIVATE button. It will lead you to the confirmation page with site that are ALLOWED to see your image. When you click back you should see the bold red "enabled" You too can see the demo page for details.

guangdian

Oct 20 2005, 08:09 AM

there are lots of urls on the "Urls to Allow Access:"
then i deleted them
then just type the two domains now i'm using then click the box"Allow direct requests (ie. entering the url to an image in your browser)"and "redirect the hotlink to the url"then click the "Active it"..
then i still can put my image to another site,then it displayed good..
how i will do with that.

BuffaloHELP

Oct 20 2005, 08:19 AM

You just answered your question, guangdian.

The second choice

QUOTE

Allow direct requests

means that when a person types the full path of your image in the browser, i.e. www.yoursite.com/image/file1.jpg, they can see it. If you don't click it, they HAVE TO BE in your site to see it. It's simple. If you want them to see your image ONLY from your website then don't check the box.

PS instead of using quotes, use the QUOTE tags! I will take away the credits next time.

guangdian

Oct 21 2005, 12:50 AM

oh,just one sentence should use quote?
oh,i know,okay quote.

what i am doubt is i didn't type the full url of my image to the browser to browser it. i just put it to the html code to another webpage.
that displayed good.

guangdian

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BuffaloHELP

Oct 29 2005, 09:35 AM

Does anybody pay attention to my signature anymore? Why do I even bother...

Check my signature. I have spent the past 3 month searching the forum to bring the key links to our members.

sunkist

Oct 28 2005, 11:08 PM

Hi Again:

Ok, so the porno idea is nixed.

Where are the terms of service? You know, I don't want to do something that violates the terms of service, and then suddenly find myself banned.

Sunkist

BuffaloHELP

Oct 27 2005, 04:39 PM

LOL!!

No I wouldn't host pornographic picture in your host. What I would do is make a simple picture with text that says, "Thank you for stealing my picture, you thief!" and rename it to the file name that other sites are taking. It's a bit pain in your end but you can then rename all pictures that are being hotlinked to something else.

I hate to see YOU get punished by TRAP17's TOS for trying to protect your intellectual copyright.

sunkist

Oct 27 2005, 04:24 PM

Hi Buffallo:

Thanks again for your suggestions. Well, we are making some progress.

When I check the box, I can view pictures on all of my pages. So that seemed to solve that problem.

However, I went to the site that is hotlinking to my pics, and she also entered the URL, so she is also able to view my pics.

I will change the way I call up the pics. I havent tried this yet. Instead of using a relative directory (..) I will type in the full URL. I will let you know.

Sunkist

P.S. I have another solution. I think I will change my link to all images being hotlinked. Then I will post a pornographic picture to that URL. Anybody trying to steal my bandwidth will get a more than they bargained for!

BuffaloHELP

Oct 27 2005, 12:36 AM

I forget how the Unix command works but what would happen if you leave out the .. before /image/picture.jpg? Will it look for image directory within the subdirectory or from the root directory?

Anyway, see what happens to your pictures if you leave out .. But in case it does not work try it with the full path

HTML

It might be a pain in the neck but if you have any editing software use the F3 key and see if there's "replace with" option. It's lot easier to replace everything that starts with ../image with http://www.histology-world.com/image

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