Publish Conflict With Hotlink Protection

[442GlenwoodAvenue]

Tonight I went into Cpanel and used the hotlink protection function - for the first time. I only disallowed one file type "rtf". I then tested the hotlink function from another site, and it all works OK.

 

Unfortunately, it seems that if anything is hotlink protected, the Frontpage "publish" function won't work. This was repeatable. If I turned hotlink protection "on", the publish function can't connect - and informs me I should contact my ISP provider and verify the extensions are installed. As soon as I turn hotlink protection "off", the publish function works just fine. This scenario was repeatable three times in a row - even though the file I protected is a file that I've told Frontpage not to publish.

 

Not asking for any help, I just suspect that's the way it is. My stand-alone FTP program still connects just fine with hotlink enabled. But there's something about the publish function in Frontpage that causes the server to interpret it as an outside request for a hotlink - I think. Of course the publish function is connecting via http, not ftp.

 

If there is a way around this - or I'm missing something, let me know.

 

442

[TCH-JimE]

Hi,

 

There does seem to be this general trend of problems with htaccess and frontpage. The internet seems littered with this problem too yet many of the pages produce dead links :-/

 

My best advice would be to learn a new package other then front page. If this is not possible, then I suggest you copy your htaccess page and then, upload a blank htaccess, upload your website with frontpage and then upload your old htaccess page.

 

Jim