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Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
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I have a private subdomain that enables my family to see where I am on the map in real time or previous tracks. Anyway, I noticed recently that a website I don't know is referring people to my site. A little more than I would prefer. So can I block a domain from sending referrals?
We (the developers of the tracking software and web based interface) are working on getting password protection up, but this is the first time someone I don't know has been going there. Louis L'Amour, “To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.” Visit our archived Minecraft world! | Maybe someday I'll proof read, until then deal with it. |
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Hmm?
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Unfortunately if it's on the internet and public, you can't stop people linking to it.
If the referring site is a robot and it plays by the rules, you might be able to stop it using robots.txt. Beyond that I would put up a holding page where the old page was with some kind of very, very small link to the actual page that's obfuscated as much as possible. I'm Joseph Fritzl, and no windows was my idea. |
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Veteran Member
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Florida
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Why not create your own password system using .htaccess? Just give the password to people you want to have it.
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Rocket Surgeon
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: The Canadark
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*attempts to find out the subdomain so he can track turtle*
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is the next Chiquita
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Personally, I'm inclined to think that whoever is running the website is in desperate need of referrals. If you can obtain the email of the whoever's running the website, I am sure they'll appreciate you doing them the favor of signing up for free iPhones, iPods, few medical supplements and steamy materials. Oh, few viruses as well, you know to help them beefen up the immunity system.
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Lord of the Rant.
Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
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Well, Google Analytics says this: thebesthosting.org | /showthread.php
So now I'm wondering how my address got posted like that? I don't want to do the .htaccess because it's more of pain to block at all... oh well. I guess I'll have to now. What about black listing that domain, would it matter? Everyone would come from their own IP right? Louis L'Amour, “To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.” Visit our archived Minecraft world! | Maybe someday I'll proof read, until then deal with it. |
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Hmm?
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I'm Joseph Fritzl, and no windows was my idea. |
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Lord of the Rant.
Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
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Louis L'Amour, “To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.” Visit our archived Minecraft world! | Maybe someday I'll proof read, until then deal with it. |
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25 chars of wasted space.
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If you have access to the server (apache.conf or .htaccess), you can use apache's mod_rewrite to check the referrer and block a domain.
Edit: I should say though that this is only a moderately effective fix, but it is what you asked for I think. |
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Lord of the Rant.
Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
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Thanks for the input on that. I'll look into that one again. For now I think I'm going to focus on getting my sandtrap fixed first though.
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No human is actually accessing your family site, don't worry. You're just the victim of log spam:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/...4b3688a8&hl=en It's unfortunately an annoying hijack. Someone is probably running through all possible numbers of Google Analytics IDs and loading up the tracker for each one with a referral of their domain in hope that you will be curious as to what it is and visit. I got this on my personal site, but I logged into a separate account for work and got similar hits a few days before. I wouldn't bother locking this page down, since it's likely nobody actually visited it, just randomly loaded up your tracker on their page to spam you. |
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Lord of the Rant.
Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
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Wow, Welcome to AppleNova!
Thanks for the link. I would have never thought something like that would go on. Interesting really. So something like my sandtrap would likely minimize this in the future then too. Oh, here, have a cookie too! Kinda refreshing to have a new member who isn't just spamming us. Louis L'Amour, “To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.” Visit our archived Minecraft world! | Maybe someday I'll proof read, until then deal with it. |
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