LisaJill

Yes, I've noted that. I've caused so many 500 errors it's not even funny anymore... thank you so much for all your help!

Here are some instructions on using Iframes: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/iframe.html They are not MT specific, but you'd just replace the file name with the outputted frile from MT. Just be aware that iframes are terrible for search engines. Hope that helps!

To include a list of entries on a page NOT generated by MT you would need to use some form of SSI, I prefer php. You don't need MTSql to list the last 10 entries, you can do it by simply finding the default MTEntries container, and find the line ><MTEntries> and change it to look like ><MTEntries lastn="10"> , that's more simple than what you're using. Then, to include it in the main page, you'd need the main page to be blah.php and you could use a php include like this: ><? include ("/home/username/public_html/includes/header.php"); ?> wherever you want the entries to appear. The other option is to use an IFrame to pull in the entries. My personal preference on doing this, however, was to move all my pages to be index templates inside MT and then to place the MT tags where I wanted them. That way MT controls everything; which I like, makes things easier. Does that get you off to a start?

It is against TCH acceptable use policy to point a domain to a specific sub-folder, I believe. Here is a link to the acceptable use policy and I believe this is covered by the same reason that you can not point domains to a subdomain. You can park domains to your main site, so that both domains bring up the same content; just not to sub-folders. If I have misunderstood your question, my apologies; please clarify exactly what you are attempting to achieve. If there is still confusion, please feel free to submit a help desk ticket for more information specific to your account.

You would be best to submit a support ticket and they can give you instructions for doing this asap. =)

Woo ok, thank you so much. I'm so scared of playing with .htaccess because I know how drastic it's effects can be. It's still unknown territory to me. Thank you! =)

I don't see any ...'s... should they appear to the right of the lower picture? This is what I see... Is that what you see? =)

Robert, Can you clarify for me a bit? I'm in unknown territory here. Would I use that to totally replace my referral spam stuff? I note its https, that will still stop the non secure http tho? And it will block anyone with the domains specified, sending them to a particular image? I just want to have people that got blocked sent to the forbidden 403 page... Or is that portion for the hotlinking section? I think I'm just really confused about what I would be replacing in my script and what it does. Thank you!

OK! I've been having a ton of problems with my .htaccess blocking sites I didn't want it to; using keywords even though I couldn't *find* the keywords. It was also doing 302's rather than 404's, giving a JS popup about "redirection's exceeded" which is not what I want... =) I really want this to go to my own 403/forbidden page. The js popup/302's even caused some browser crashes, so no good. So I changed the method, ditched that method and am using re-write rules. But now I have two sets, one for hotlinking and one for spam referrers. Can someone with more knowledge in this area have a look and make sure I haven't set up any conflicts or done anything really ridiculous? Comments included so you can see what I am *intending* thanks all =) ># Added for Custom 404 Error ErrorDocument 404 /errors/404.php ErrorDocument 401 /errors/401.php ErrorDocument 500 /errors/500.php # prepend to refer 2.0, site referral script, robots excluded php_value auto_prepend_file /home/distdky/public_html/refer/refer.php #hotlink protection and exceptions RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://lisa-jill.com/.*$ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://lisa-jill.com$ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.lisa-jill.com/.*$ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.lisa-jill.com$ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.bloglines.com/.*$ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.bloglines.com$ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://bloglines.com/.*$ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://bloglines.com$ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://technorati.com/.*$ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://technorati.com$ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.technorati.com/.*$ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.technorati.com$ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://chris.lisa-jill.com/.*$ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://chris.lisa-jill.com$ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://lisajill.livejournal.com/.*$ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://lisajill.livejournal.com$ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.livejournal.com/.*$ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.livejournal.com$ [NC] RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp)$ http://www.lisa-jill.com/images/hotlink.jpe [R,NC] # block the following sites, referrer spam RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ghettoinc\.com [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} allinternal\.biz [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} sampo\.cz RewriteRule .* - [F,L] # block these ip's, they've been problematic deny from 203.71.62.250 deny from 212.227.127.209 deny from 216.130.172.224 deny from 207.44.248.42 deny from 216.117.199.235 deny from 69.61.11.163 deny from 66.115.148.29 deny from 66.102.15.101 deny from 194.126.99.88 deny from 24.69.156.45 deny from 217.207.235.106 deny from 68.166.110.242 deny from 212.0.150.7 deny from 194.6.122.162 I edited out about 50 sites in the spam referrer section; some nasty words and just to conserve space. I included the last one (no OR statement) and a good sample. What I would like to happen is if someone hits me up from one of the banned sites, it goes to my error 403 page (that's not defined above, so it doesn't happen now, I will implement it when I'm sure conflicts are gone; I have no idea how to test this, at that...) Anyone that can explain this I'd really appreciate it, thank you =)

Since paypal is taken you can transfer funds into paypal and use that to get the account set up.; I had a friend use this method in several places where they required credit OR paypal. =)

Try: http://111.111.111.111/~username/scgi-bin/mt-check.cgi until the domain propogates. =)

No idea, I've never done this. I'm sorry =/ Whatever a normal, text based pdf document is per page, multiplied by the number of pages of the book? *blushes* I just knew I had seen the ability to do it; but I've never utilized this. I can see how very useful this is going to be for research and texts when I can lug my notebook to the library; time to get a pen scanner for those important quote!

kasey, If you use a relative path when linking images in MT, make sure you use the beginning /, ie: ><img src="/images/wickedwithofthewest.jpg" alt="Wicked With of the West" /> The reason that I suggest this is that the posts, especially, will be saved and viewed from multiple folders; if you use a relative path it may not find the image from some of those locales. Safer to tell it to find it from the root. =) Also, if you want valid code, include the alt tag and the /> - you'll thank me if you get involved with standards-based code and validation. Hope that didn't confuse you. =)

TheArtist, I responded to your private message, I will be around on IM all night tonight and am around most (not all, of course =) evenings and am happy to answer questions as you work through the installation instructions.

Adobe Acrobat 6, Professional can do this natively... Open up Adobe Acrobat Professional version 6. Go to file -> Create PDF -> From Scanner. In create PDF there is also an option "from multiple files" so if you have scans already done that should help. I hope? =) {edited addition} of course this won't OCR it; so it will be just a graphic image of the scanned page. Should be fine for reading, and it is what you requested. Getting involved with OCR is a different level that I'm not familiar with, but madman has addressed nicely. =) if you don't want ocr, it's very simple and easy, though!

The page definitely ends in .shtml?

If you create a subdomain via cpanel, then generally the files are located in public_html/subdirectoryname So, if I created writing.lisa-jill.com, there would be a new folder in public_html called writing. That's is where the root directory for writing.lisa-jill.com would then be. Oh and you can get subdomain stats via cpanel as well. =) Does that help?

try this: localhost Hope that helps!

It may not be great with a webcam microphone. I use a stereo, noise cancelling headset for skype that works wonders, though. =)

I use skype a lot, have noticed no slowdown or browsing issues, doesn''t seem to take up much bandwidth at all. =)

*nods* The software I use can stream sound as well, although I am not using that option. =) I'm not sure how good it is. WebcamXP You were just in chat so you've seen it, what do ya think?

Alan, the video chat option in Logitech uses a remote service, it's free for 30 days then expensive, and you have very little control over it. Is the link I posted what you are after? Or did you have something else in mind? *nods at Rob* that makes sense, I hadn't really considered it... =)

Alan, like this? That's real time, I promise you. =) I just want to make sure that's what you want before I go spouting off advice, you see.... Oh! And Thomas, you can place these on the shared servers, it's simply an http stream via flash. This software can do it via javascript or a java applet as well, but I've found flash the speediest and highest quality.

*the* video chat? Do you mean like what I occasionally have on my site?

I agree. On my cable connection here, around 3am I can get speeds around 550kb from Logitech (whee!) but I've never seen speeds like that elsewhere. I'm really not sure how or why their site is so incredibly fast. I'm thankful though, because I've had to re-install my quickcam software several times, and I keep losing the install file.... But around 250-300kb/s is about normal for me. =)