Starting webmaster

[zerox]

Hello, we are finishing new bizarre & amateurs website. I'd like to know answers to few of my questions:

1. How to protect members area from automatic robots (like wget, teleport pro, website sucker, etc etc etc) ?

2. How to protect members area from bookmarking files and/or relinking to others websites (stealing my traffic) ?

3. Currenly, still looking for 3rd party billing primary for European Union, websitebilling looks nice, any other ideas ?

4. How to start with advertising ?

5. Any other comments welcome ... i will post url when site is completely done.

Thanks
zerox

[markell]

as far as protecting the content, i myself use imagefolio it disables the right click but the smart folks can still view the source to fine the location. but overall it does a good job and u can turn the referrer on to stop links from outside of your site from working.

imagefolio is allso good with management, it plays the movies right in the browser and allows members to download it if you enable it.

this is just my 2 cents, good luck

[Azathoth]

As for blocking web rippers here's an apache .htaccess file that should do it for you. ( However it is based on User Agents which can be forged ).

--Start .htaccess file--
SetEnvIf User-Agent ^Wget wget_useragent
SetEnvIf User-Agent ^Python-urllib urllib_useragent
SetEnvIf User-Agent ^WebStripper webstripper_useragent
SetEnvIf User-Agent ^WebReaper webreaper_useragent
SetEnvIf User-Agent ^Express webpictures_useragent
SetEnvIf User-Agent ^WebCopier webcopier_useragent
SetEnvIf User-Agent ^Teleport teleport_useragent

Order allow,deny
Allow from all

Deny from env=wget_useragent
Deny from env=urllib_useragent
Deny from env=webstripper_useragent
Deny from env=webreaper_useragent
Deny from env=webpictures_useragent
Deny from env=webcopier_useragent
Deny from env=teleport_useragent
-- End .htaccess file--

[zerox]

thanks a lot ;-)