pootato.org » Miscellaneous http://pootato.org Tutorials for your website Mon, 26 May 2008 19:56:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 en SHTML variables http://pootato.org/tutorials/miscellaneous/shtml-variables/ http://pootato.org/tutorials/miscellaneous/shtml-variables/#comments Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:21:23 +0000 Clara http://pootato.org/tutorials/miscellaneous/shtml-variables/ Those are just some variables you can put in your SHTML document.

The following one will display the document name.

<!--#echo var="document_name" --> This one will display the folders in which the document is.

<!--#echo var="DOCUMENT_URI" --> This one displays the current date and time.

<!--#echo var="DATE_LOCAL" --> This one displays when the document was last modified.

<!--#echo var="last_modified" --> This one shows the visitor IP adress.

<!--#echo var="remote_addr" --> This one displays the referer to your page

<!--#echo var="http_referer" --> And finally, this one displays which browser the visitor uses.

<!--#echo var="http_user_agent" -->

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]]> http://pootato.org/tutorials/miscellaneous/shtml-variables/feed/ SHTML basic page http://pootato.org/tutorials/miscellaneous/shtml-basic-page/ http://pootato.org/tutorials/miscellaneous/shtml-basic-page/#comments Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:20:07 +0000 Clara http://pootato.org/tutorials/miscellaneous/shtml-basic-page/ SHTML or SSI works exactly as PHP Inclusion! Don't forget, if you want to make a SHTML page, the extension must be .shtml or .shtm! Well, so make your page, with the design, etc. If you've understood it, I recommend you to use PHP inclusion instead. :)

<html>
<head>
<title>Welcome to my webpage</title>
</head>
<body>
<!– Layout code –>
<p>CONTENTS</p>
<!– Layout code –>
</body>
</html>

Okay, now you will have to separate it in three parts, the header, the contents and the footer. Open a new document and paste your header. The header is everything before the contents. Save it as header.htm

<html>
<head>
<title>Welcome to my webpage</title>
</head>
<body>
<!– Layout code –>

Now, open an other document and paste the footer. The footer is everything after the contents. Save it as footer.htm

<!– Layout code –>
</body>
</html>

Good, now, open a new document and paste this:

<!--#include virtual="header.htm" –>
<!–#include virtual="footer.htm" –>

Save it as index.shtml! Good, you're almost done!! Now, just add the contents!! :D

<!--#include virtual="header.htm" –>
<p>Hello welcome! Blah blah!</p>
<!–#include virtual="footer.htm" –>

To make the other pages, you just have to repeat this step! For exemple:

<!--#include virtual="header.htm" –>
<p>This is another page!</p>
<!–#include virtual="footer.htm" –>

And save it as page1.shtml or whatever! =)

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PerlSetVar AuthFile 6541.txt
AuthName "PASSWORD REQUIRED"
AuthType Basic
require valid-user

Save as .htaccess or paste it in your current htaccess file. "PASSWORD REQUIRED" is the message shown when someone tries to access the page. The "6541.txt" in bold is the name of the file containing your password and username. I advise you to name it with a name or numbers nobody can find… If it isn't in the same folder as your htaccess file, you can add folder/6541.txt Well, then, open a new blank document, and put your username and password like this:

USERNAME:PASSWORD

Save it as 6541.txt !

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]]> http://pootato.org/tutorials/miscellaneous/password-protection/feed/ Anti Direct Linking http://pootato.org/tutorials/miscellaneous/anti-direct-linking/ http://pootato.org/tutorials/miscellaneous/anti-direct-linking/#comments Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:57:55 +0000 Clara http://pootato.org/tutorials/miscellaneous/anti-direct-linking/ Bandwidth, direct linking, hot linking, etc. When you direct link or hot link, it's when you insert an image hosted somewhere different from your server. If you do this, you steal bandwidth! The domain owner has a bandwidth limit and he/she paid for it. For exemple, you want to put an image and you write this in your code:

<img src="http://anotherdomain.com/image.gif" alt="" />

This = bad bad bad! Well, anyway, if you're a "victim" you can try this useful little code… It deals with htaccess so take care! (source of the code) In your htaccess file, paste this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?DOMAIN.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg)$ http://URL.COM/DIE.GIF [R,L]

Well, you just have to replace domain.com by your domain name… Then, I recommend you to host a little image somewhere on a free server, it will be shown when someone direct link your pic… Replace url.com/die.gif by the picture's url. You shouldn't host it on your server because it will take your bandwidth as well.

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ErrorDocument 404 REPLACE_BY_YOUR_PAGE_URL.htm

Well, it's the same for other pages error, exemple:

ErrorDocument 400 http://www.you.com/400.htm
ErrorDocument 403 http://www.you.com/403.htm
ErrorDocument 500 http://www.you.com/500.htm
ErrorDocument 404 http://www.you.com/404.htm

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]]> http://pootato.org/tutorials/miscellaneous/custom-error-pages/feed/ No directory listing http://pootato.org/tutorials/miscellaneous/no-directory-listing/ http://pootato.org/tutorials/miscellaneous/no-directory-listing/#comments Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:08:48 +0000 Clara http://pootato.org/tutorials/miscellaneous/htaccess/no-directory-listing/ If you upload a folder without an index page (i.e. index.html or index.php etc.), and if you go to that folder URL, everything in this folder will be listed. Well, if you want to hide the contents of your folders without uploading index files each time, you should use this code. :) Open your existing htaccess file or a new doc and paste this:

IndexIgnore *

This will prevent the listing of ALL files, no matter what extension they have. If you want an exemple, try to access this folder. I uploaded images in this folder but the listing has been disabled :) Now, if you want to hide just your images, paste this

IndexIgnore *.gif *.jpg *.png

You can hide your HTML pages as well, by adding *.html etc.! Save the file, upload it and once it's on your server, rename it to .htaccess

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