[TUTORIAL] Forced ads for resellers

RageD · Jun 25, 2006

Ok, well I finally found it... Forced ads with .htaccess file! Right now this works for .html & .htm extensions, but I'm working on getting it to .php as well, I will update as I figure that one out, it's a little more difficult for obvious reasons. (Quotes, syntax, etc. And above all, it parses through a PHP script)

MUST have the php_read function enabled! (Most webservers have this on by default)

YES! This is a free alternative to all the software out there

First, go into your cPanel account. (Reseller)

Now, not in WHM, but cPanel go into File Manager.

Find your cPanel skeleton directory.

In here... What we will do...

First create a new folder... Name it.. header...

In this folder create 3 text documents...

1 text document named: header.php
1 text document named: header.html
1 text document named: footer.html

In header.php insert the following code:

PHP:

<?php
$header = "header.html";
$footer = "footer.html";
$file = $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'];

readfile($header);
readfile($file);
readfile($footer);
?>

In header.html insert your ad code you wish to be set in the header.

In footer.html insert your ad code you wish to be set in the footer.

Now go back up one directory... Edit your .htaccess file..

Add this somewhere:

Code:

AddHandler headered .html # Enable adds on HTML pages
AddHandler headered .htm # Enable adds on HTM pages
AddHandler headered .php # Enable adds on PHP pages
Action headered /header/header.php

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Ok, now that we have that finished, I have an iFrame code you can use!

Now, let's begin..

Open backup your header.html file.. Change it to this: (Footer will not be iFrame unless you do so doing the same process)

HTML:

<HTML>
<center><iframe src="http://yoursite.com/header/iframesrc.adsource" scrolling="no" width="48.2%" height="12%"></iframe></center>
</HTML>
<html>

Now, we need to create a new file... Create a new text document and name it: iframesrc.adsource (Be sure to place it in the "header" directory)

Insert you're ad code into that page...

But wait... Perplexed? That is correct, we still need to make the .adsource extension a valid one! So here is what we'll do.

Get out of the skeleton directory and go into the reseller account's /public_html folder. Open the .htaccess file..

In the .htaccess file add this somewhere:

Code:

AddHandler server-parsed adsource
AddType text/html adsource

Do this just in the reseller's .htaccess or wherever the ad code is being read from... This way the .adsource extension is not available for all users.

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At the current time it is not very secure for the user will be able to edit it, but I am working on it.. This is the basic concept and as I make changes I will create a changelog at the bottom of this post! Now creating an account will automatically ad your adcode to the site! Just make sure if needed you ad that domain to your publisher account with the ad company

-RageD

Collector · Jun 25, 2006

Great work!

Got to try that out.

Thanks...

jplascencia · Jul 24, 2006

Looking to 'force ads' I found something called mod_layout and, better (I believe, but I'm not a real webmaster) http://www.ihostdev.com/ipanel.html . It looks good but I don't have a dedicated server to install it.

Does anybody has install it on a VPS?

I'm looking for a good provider of VPS where I am sure it can be installed.

Any suggestion?

Thanks.

RageD · Jul 25, 2006

There are indeed costly programs such as iPanel, but this is a completely free alternative as mentioned above.

-RageD

jplascencia · Jul 25, 2006

I agree

In fact, it looks very creative.

By the way, did you find the way to make the appear on PHP scripts?

My previous Reply was only looking if someone else found another way to do that, inclusive, under payment. My problem is that I don't have the money for a dedicated server (and, monthly fees

) but I can try to pay once for a script (that can be installed on a cheaper shared hosting service).

Sorry for any inconvenience i've caused.

Joe · Jul 26, 2006

i think this is a nice little way of garanteeing that you have ads on your hosting accounts

nice one

Joe

bquast · Jul 28, 2006

there is another way to do this with just using .htaccess and just using the .htaccess file itself forget how to do it right now, if I find my free hosting script ill pull it out of it.

champ_rock · Oct 26, 2006

i did everything that you said properly.. (i have not used iframes right now.. just the basic one)

but i am getting this error

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: () in /home/XXXXX/public_html/header.php on line 6

please tell me whats wrong.. also how to do it directly with .htaccess?

RageD · Oct 26, 2006

You used this code exactly in your header.php file?

PHP:

<?php
$header = "header.html";
$footer = "footer.html";

$file = $_SERVER["PATH_TRANSLATED"];
$readfile($header);
$readfile($file);
$readfile($footer);
?>

It must be like that and you must have your header.html file in the same directory so it can be read by this file.

-RageD

champ_rock · Oct 27, 2006

well i dont think that there is any problem with the header.html or footer.html

i did one trick to check that out. i removd all the header and footer entries.. so that now the code stands as

Code:

<?php 

$file = $_SERVER["PATH_TRANSLATED"];  
$readfile($file); 
 
?>

here is the error log that i am getting

Code:

[27-Oct-2006 01:57:47] PHP Fatal error:  Function name must be a string in /home/gaurav/public_html/header/header.php on line 4
[27-Oct-2006 01:58:07] PHP Fatal error:  Function name must be a string in /home/gaurav/public_html/header/header.php on line 4

can u please tell me if i have to change somthing with PATH_TRANSLATED or anything according to my server or location?

i think it is some problem with string functions or something as the error log says?

RageD · Oct 28, 2006

You can try to do this manually:

For $file = $_SERVER['PATH_TRANSLATED']; try this:

PHP:

$file = "/home/YOUR_USERNAME/public_html/SCRIPT_DIRECTORY/header.php";

-RageD

champ_rock · Oct 28, 2006

did that but it is still not working

.. is it possible that my server admins may have blocked this kind of a function ???

and one more thing, i will give u one free cpanel hosting account with 100mb space+ 1gb bandwidth to experiment..

Joe · Nov 5, 2006

very nice!
not sure i really want to use it though
but for people who do
this is awesome

Joe

ArcticPro · Nov 6, 2006

Thanks for sharing!

prowebhoster · Dec 15, 2006

this does not work, tried every way said above?
still get this error

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: () in /home/cbmania/public_html/header/header.php on line 6

Kilk · Dec 16, 2006

Oh I would have never thought of this! Thank you very much, Nice tutorial!

RageD · Dec 19, 2006

prowebhoster said:
this does not work, tried every way said above?
still get this error

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: () in /home/cbmania/public_html/header/header.php on line 6

Ok, is your header.php file named correctly and in the /public_html/header directory? If so, did you check the correction above making $file direct straight to that file?

-RageD

Camron · Dec 20, 2006

Anyone can just delete the folder and edit their htaccess, even the people with no knowledge about this type of stuff.

champ_rock · Dec 21, 2006

ok i got to know.. this was a problem with my server... i enquired ..something like "php read file" function must be enabled to successfully implement this technique...

RageD · Dec 21, 2006

Normally this is already on, but I'll make sure I put it up there so people don't have this problem again!

-RageD

champ_rock · Feb 12, 2007

hey raged, have you found any complete solution which puts headers for php files as well??

thanks a lot

RageD · Feb 12, 2007

Actually I have.. This seems to work on PHP 4.x and 5.x. I will update the original post but instead of:

PHP:

$_SERVER["PATH_TRANSLATED"]

it seems rather that:

PHP:

$_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']

is a better alternative!

Cheers,
-RageD

champ_rock · Feb 13, 2007

yippie finally a php version as well... desperately waiting for that one dude

YesBrilliant · Feb 15, 2007

champ_rock said:
yippie finally a php version as well... desperately waiting for that one dude

Just like me.

Thanks for sharing!

RageD · Aug 5, 2007

Just felt I'd revive this one for anyone who is looking for such a solution again!

Also, I have not tested this but here is an idea. If you would like to keep the "header" directory untouchable by the user and have root access (many don't but that's alright. Maybe it would work with just SSH access on a reseller) try this:

cd /home/USER/public_html
chown root headers/
chown root headers/*

Again, I have not tried this. You may want to test that apache still allows the file to be executed in the browser but it should. After CHOWN'ing to root or another user (resellers try with chown YOURUSER) the user will be unable to edit the file.

-RageD

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