Hot Link Protection

[sunkist 0]

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/Xisto bandwidth to be stolen.Sunkist

[BuffaloHelp 24]

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 0]

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 0]

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 0]

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 0]

But I am seeing both buttons

[BuffaloHelp 24]

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 0]

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 24]

You just answered your question, guangdian. The second choice

Allow direct requests

means that when a person types the full path of your image in the browser, i.e. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/, 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 0]

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

[sunkist 0]

Hi Buffallo:Thanks for your help so far.Ok, here is where I am at:I discovered I had to delete all the subdirectories to make the activate button work. So, I list my index page only (http://www.histology-world.com/). And for that page, hot linking works.I went to one of the sites where they are using my image by hotlinking, and all I got was the box with the red x. Just what I wanted!However, I have a ton of file folders underneath the index page. Even when I add them, my own pages are not able to view the images.For example: when I add "http://www.histology-world.com/cdroms/cdroms.htm; to the list in the box, it activates. It looks like it will work.Yet, when I go to that page, my image is not visible. I have all my images in the folder called "image". Am I adding the URL's incorrectly? Any other suggestions? Thanks again.SunkistP.S. I currently have hot linking "off" so that my visitors can see the images.

Notice from BuffaloHELP:

Merging double posts.

[BuffaloHelp 24]

sunkist,

 

Try adding just http://histology-world.com/ so that your list is

http://www.histology-world.com/

http://histology-world.com/

The reason even your own page cannot show your own images is that when you link your image in HTML you type

<img src="/image/picture.jpg">

And this is calling for your parent directory. And since your parent directory is first (I think) called as "http://histology-world.com/; (again I don't know why WWW is omitted but try it).

 

So add the second link without WWW and see if it works out. I updated my cPanel demo page just for this thread. You can find it in my signature link.

[sunkist 0]

Hi again:Nope, that didn't work. When entering just those two URL's, images show up fine on my homepage (http://www.histology-world.com/). But any of the pages that are in folders, such as (http://www.histology-world.com/art/art.htm) don't work. The images are blocked.Who is allowed to go into my cpanel and get it to work? Am I the only one who can do that? Or can admins do that?Also, would there be another way for bloxking xanga and Myhomepage from hot linking? Should I just block there IP's or is that not such a good idea?Sunkist

[BuffaloHelp 24]

http://www.histology-world.com/art/art.htm

In your HTM file, how did you coded to call a particular picture?

 

is it like this?

<img src="/image/picture.jpg">

or like this?

<img src="http://www.histology-world.com/contents/contents.htm;

?

 

Just for fun, before you reply to this message enter this under your two lists

http://69.50.188.18

I don't know why I'm asking you to do that but that all I can think of. There's another checkbox under the allowed hotlink protection something like 'allow direct URL call' Check to see if that helps you (although I wouldn't check that but try it).

 

Only you have the access to the cPanel or anyone who knows your username and password. At any circumstances you are to be careful with giving those information but I'd be okay to have a look (this by the way is also against TOS and I hope I'm not banned ). But let's try above mothods first then we'll talk.

 

If you can post codes for your art.htm that would be nice (at least the part that calls for images).

[sunkist 0]

Hi Buffallo:Thanks for all your help.I call up the images like so "../image/boneart2t.jpg"Let me try your other suggestions, and I will let you know.I don't want to violate TOS or risk getting you banned (or me banned), so I'll just pass on that idea.Worst case scenario, I will just leave it. They are not stealing too much bandwidth.Sunkist