Advertise on customer accounts

[XpLiCiT]

i already have the reseller account but i was wondering if i can put ads on customers accounts, and how exactly would i do that

[quietFinn]

If you mean that you'd want to create some kind of "opening soon" page in a newly created account, then in WHM look at: Account Functions -> Skeleton Directory

[XpLiCiT]

no i want to give people free hosting but i want to stick a banner on there sites.

[esl]

You can put ads on your clients website, I'm just not sure how you would do that. May be just make the free accounts have a subdomain using your hosting website domain?

[XpLiCiT]

someone showed me how they do it using .htaccess file.


php_value output_buffering 4098
AddType application/x-httpd-php htm
AddType application/x-httpd-php html
php_value auto_append_file 'http://xplicit.godzsite.com/footer.html'

problem is whenever i do it it gives me an error. but the same script works on other reseller account

Warning: Unknown(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/home/lnorman/xplicit/footer.html) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/xplicit:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp) in Unknown on line 0

Warning: Unknown(/home/lnorman/xplicit/footer.html): failed to open stream: Operation not permitted in Unknown on line 0

Warning: Unknown(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/home/lnorman/xplicit/footer.html) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/xplicit:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp) in Unknown on line 0

Warning: Unknown(/home/lnorman/xplicit/footer.html): failed to open stream: Operation not permitted in Unknown on line 0

Warning: (null)(): Failed opening '/home/lnorman/xplicit/footer.html' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in Unknown on line 0

open_basedir stops u from using back path to it so i try using full address http://

then i get this error

Warning: Unknown(http://xplicit.godzsite.com/footer.html): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! in Unknown on line 0

Warning: Unknown(http://xplicit.godzsite.com/footer.html): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! in Unknown on line 0

Warning: (null)(): Failed opening 'http://xplicit.godzsite.com/footer.html' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in Unknown on line 0

annnyone out there have any idea how i can get around this problem?

[vtrain]

it seems you have your file in /home/lnorman/xplicit/footer.html and maybe it should be in /home/xplicit/public_html/footer.html ?

Vt

[quietFinn]

As the error says:

Warning: Unknown(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/home/lnorman/xplicit/footer.html) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/xplicit:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp) in Unknown on line 0

you are trying to use file in path /home/lnorman/xplicit/ when open_basedir restricts the paths you could use to: /home/xplicit or /usr/lib/php or /usr/local/lib/php or /tmp
(notice that you can use any directory below those, i.e. /home/xplicit/public_html would work).

[XpLiCiT]

yea but i still get the errors lol

Warning: Unknown(.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/phpfooter.html): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0

Warning: Unknown(.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/phpfooter.html): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0

Warning: Unknown(.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/phpfooter.html): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0

Warning: (null)(): Failed opening '.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/phpfooter.html' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in Unknown on line 0

[quietFinn]

1.st, find out what is the www root of your site, go to cPanel and there, on the left side, you see:

WWW directory /home/<yourusername>/public_html

in <yourusername> is your username.

2nd, put the file footer.html to the public_html directory

3rd, add this to the .htaccess

php_value auto_append_file '/home/<yourusername>/public_html/footer.html'

again, <yourusername> is your username.

[XpLiCiT]

ok..

php_value auto_append_file '/home/<username>/public_html/_vti_log/footer.html'

this works but i have to put the footer.html on the users account..
so they could just delete it

also if i stick this in the skel directory so that wen new ppl sign up they have banners, the script dosnt work cause <username> wouldnt point to there account it would point to my test account.

so id have to add every account manually.

also, and i know its dumb but if i do get this solved can u delete this topic off your forum. cause it seems to have a better google ranking than my actual site and i dont want any ppl knowing how to get rid of there banners by reading this topic.

thanks help appreciated!

[quietFinn]

Originally Posted by XpLiCiT

ok..


this works but i have to put the footer.html on the users account..
so they could just delete it

They delete the files, you delete their account
Just write to your TOS that they can't delete the files.

Originally Posted by XpLiCiT

also, and i know its dumb but if i do get this solved can u delete this topic off your forum. cause it seems to have a better google ranking than my actual site and i dont want any ppl knowing how to get rid of there banners by reading this topic.

thanks help appreciated!

They will know what happens if they do delete the files

[XpLiCiT]

yea but they can always just edit the footer to ad there own google banner instead

i guess i could setup a cron job to check it
but i dont wanna be adding these banners in manually anyway

[Serra]

Originally Posted by XpLiCiT

yea but they can always just edit the footer to ad there own google banner instead

i guess i could setup a cron job to check it
but i dont wanna be adding these banners in manually anyway

Can't you just add this to an .htaccess file above the root and then store the footer on another site URL where they can't edit it?

I do this all of the time, load PHP code from another site.

PHP Code:

include("http://mysite.com/footer.php") 


[freeman]

Originally Posted by XpLiCiT

yea but they can always just edit the footer to ad there own google banner instead

i guess i could setup a cron job to check it
but i dont wanna be adding these banners in manually anyway

Or you can use mod layout http://tangent.org/index.pl?lastnode_id=478&node_id=362

I used this and tested with more than 5000 users (free webhosting)...

This insert header and footer on every page opened by apache and you can configure by directory....

OOpppsss if you are on dedicated !!!!

[Dwight]

Originally Posted by XpLiCiT

i already have the reseller account but i was wondering if i can put ads on customers accounts, and how exactly would i do that

http://www.superhomepagespro.com/index.htm

A long time ago I was exploring the same idea... above is the link to one of the solutions I looked at... I did NOT try this out or use it, so it's not a recomendation... I found others as well, but this is the one I can remember... hope that helps