asimrsiddiqui 0 Report post Posted September 18, 2004 Hi,Does anyone told me! how to protect my web page (.html) to the leeches........... my link are stolen by other and i have nothing yet else.One more i dont want to use any software like html protector.....I want manual solution for this. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chronogamer28 0 Report post Posted September 18, 2004 Usually, just find a reliable host. The last host I turned to was hacked by '**** OS X', so I came here because I really don't trust them with my site after their main site got hacked. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
overture 0 Report post Posted September 18, 2004 There is a link in your control panel located in the Site Management Tools section and it is called Leech Protect. From there you can select the directory of files which you want to be protected from leeches. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
r3d1405241470 0 Report post Posted September 18, 2004 you can use php in this situationlike validating a referrer if it's not from your domain/sub domain it will sent a error page :)for your image use php gd functions, this host also offer that one Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jcguy 0 Report post Posted September 19, 2004 Astahost supports Hotlinking protection for your images. You can choose to allow only your site to display images hosted on your account. There is a tutorial here on enabling Hotlinking: http://forums.xisto.com/topic/201-topic/?showtopic=201 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zeus1405241470 0 Report post Posted September 19, 2004 Can you say it in detail Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
almoo7 0 Report post Posted September 20, 2004 Can you say it in detail <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Here it is then, if you're too lazy to check the URL of the post above. How would you feel if you know that somebody is stealing your bandwidth? You do have a bandwidth quota for your account, but imagine somebody using your bandwdith for his/her benefit. That's so unfair! But, you can stop hotlinking. Hotlinking is when another web site owner links directly to one or more of your images or multimedia files and includes it on their web page. An example would be using an <IMG> tag to display a JPEG image you found on someone else's web page so it will appear on your own site. For example, you have this image in the following place in your account: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/. However, a bandwidth thief can easily show your that image on his site by calling the image using the following HTML: <IMG src="http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/; height="350" width="200"> So, every time the thief's page is loaded, your server has to use its bandwidth to display the image. And there goes your bandwith, and if the file is large enough or shown frequently enough, your bandwidth for the month may be completely gone, making your site inaccessible! This is a serious problem espeially if you had designed very nice graphics and flash animations and stored them on your own site. Others can easily stole your bandwidth. Luckily, cPanel has a solution. It can prevent hotlinking by only allowing named sites (such as your own web site) to access files on your site. To prevent hotlinking: 1) Click on the HotLink Preventor link in the Advanced Menu area. 2) Enter any other addresses that you will allow to access your site other than the provided defaults in the central area. 3) Enter the protected extensions in the Extensions to allow field. Make sure you separate each extension with a comma. 4) Enter the address to redirect any hotlinking to in the Url to Redirect to field. You can for example redirect the thief to a page scolding him or warning him. Imagine the fun you can have! ;-) 5) Click on the 'Activate' button. You're done! This way, cPanel will prevent access to files from sites not specified from you. Your bandwidth is then protected this way. Posted originally by jcguy Share this post Link to post Share on other sites