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Zenphoto on host with image hotlinking disabled

mbonwick Member
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Hi,

I'm running zenphoto on 110mb.com free hosting, but recently (last week) they disabled image hotlinking, so noone can see the large versions of images in my gallery (Clicking a thumbnail returns "object not found")

Is there anything I can do about this?

Comments

  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    We will need a link to that site.
  • sbillard Member
    These links are all direct, so I think we need to understand what the site did to "disable hot linking".
  • mbonwick Member
    The link to the site is http://mbonwick.110mb.com/gallery

    From reading what little information 110mb.com have made available, I understand that the HTTP referrer must either:
    be 110mb.com
    be site.110mb.com (where site is the user's site, in my case mbonwick.110mb.com)
    or be non existant, through vopying and pasting a link.

    Even so, I still can't see how this would affect zenphoto.
  • sbillard Member
    The only thing I see that is strange is that the "album" parameter has the slash(/) character encoded. This is not normal, it is usually left a slash. But I tried the URL with a slash instead of the %2F and still got the object not found.

    Anyway, this error generally comes from not finding the particular album file or image file in the filesystem. So one possibility is that Zenphoto is no longer able to read the folders due to some permissions change. This might be what they did to prevent hotlinking.
  • mbonwick Member
    At the suggestion of the host admins, I tried the gallery with the default theme again. This time it worked.

    This has led me to believe that this is a template-related fault, but I've no idea what could have been changed/deleted in the "stopdesign" theme.

    Thoughts please.
  • sbillard Member
    Were you using an unmodified version of stopdesign?
  • mbonwick Member
    Not quite,

    All I've done is add a banner at the bottom of the homepage using HTML code after the PHP close tags.
  • sbillard Member
    That should not be an issue, but maybe for completeness you should try the unmodified stopdesign theme. I checked the stopdesign theme from the nightly builds and it is not placint the %2F in place of slashes in the album urls.

    Just FYI, this problem is typically caused by using the `urlencode()` function rather than the `pathurlencode()` function on album names.
  • mbonwick Member
    How strange....I reinstalled the theme, except for the modified index.php file
    It's started working again! I just hope it lasts...

    I'm none the wiser as to the cause, but thanks for the help. Much appreciated.
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