So I'm wandering through CP Panel, marveling at all the pretty lights and blinking doo-dads, when I come across an area the promises to tell me "interesting information" about my last 300 visitors...cool!

It seems that a lot of my hits (if not the majority) come from the Alliance logo image that bogsplotted Alliance members are using. That was not unexpected. What was unexpected was this referrer, using what I believe is called a "hotlink" to my Clinton Pez dispenser picture. I don't like that.

I considered trying to delete the image from my image page, but then my post would suffer, too.

Then I found that CP has hotlink protection! Way Cool! Only, I'm afraid if I turn it on, all the bogsplotted Alliance members will lose their logo...

So--a little help? Anyone know how I can use the hotlink protection feature without making the poor bogsploters needlessly suffer?

UPDATE: I altered the image in my files, as you may notice if you click the link. That doesn't solve the bandwidth problem, but it's funny....

UPDATE part deux: Following Madfish Willie's instructions, I put as many Alliance URLS as I could find in the CP Panel list of recent accesses into the "allow" box, and then enabled the protection. We'll see if it works.

Oh, and Jim--the picture I substituted for the clinton pez dispenser image is in the extended entry...

Well, that didn't work! Wonder why I can see the pic in preview, but can't from Munuviana?

Posted by: Susie at 05:01 PM | Comments (81) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 What you do is make a very funny or grotesque image with the original file name and upload it. Then go take a screen shot of his page and share it with your readers. hehehe

Posted by: Jim @ at August 18, 2004 06:09 PM

2 Susie: You were much too nice to the jackass that's stealing your MuNu bandwidth...

Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at August 18, 2004 07:45 PM

3 You could just delete the image file that they are stealing.

To allow all Alliance members to access the image file and no one else, you would have to enter their URLs in the Enable Hotlink Protection: box. That will prevent all other sites from stealing your bandwidth.

Make sure you have clicked the Activate button

Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at August 18, 2004 08:27 PM

4 This thread reminded me of something I wanted to ask a while back. When I enable the hot-link protection for my site, no one, except me, can see my images! I had the opposite problem at ittasteslikeburning.net. When I would refresh my site, all my images would disappear. No one else seemed to have this problem though. Any ideas?

Posted by: Lynn @ at August 18, 2004 10:52 PM

5 How is everyone else getting into CPanel? I've never even seen it! Did I miss an e-mail or something?

Posted by: CD @ at August 19, 2004 01:29 AM

6 Pixy has to set up your account. Then he'll send you the url, username, password. Drop him an e-mail to get set up.

Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at August 19, 2004 01:33 AM

7 Dang, when I put that link in this am, it went right to where the picture was posted. Now it takes me to a log-in screen....Too bad I didn't get a screen shot!

Posted by: Susie @ at August 19, 2004 03:11 AM

8 Oops! Guess I need to ad munu to the allow group! Sheesh!

Posted by: Susie @ at August 19, 2004 04:11 AM

9 Susie: If you want to get all the Alliance blogroll, find a site that used the blogroll script, do a View Page Source, and it should list the entire blogroll. then just copy and paste into the Hotlink Protection box. I don't know who keeps it updated now that there isn't a showcase contest, but I assume someone keeps it current.

Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at August 19, 2004 08:26 PM

10 I see the Cluepon just fine, btw.

Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at August 20, 2004 02:39 AM

11 Hi, I own the site on which your image is being hotlinked.

As you know, it's a forum, and whoever did it probably did not have any idea of the complications of hotlinking.

If you need help with hotlink protection through mod_rewrite (the method cpanel uses) feel free to ask about it on our web development forum and I'll be sure to personally go by and help you out.

Regards,

Craven de Kere

Posted by: Craven de Kere @ at August 30, 2004 06:24 AM

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