Forced Ads On ISPConfig With Debian Etch
This howto forces ads on every single site that you have and cannot be deleted by users from the .htaccess - it does not even use .htaccess.
I am using Debian Etch and ISPConfig 2.2.24.
Steps that will be done:
- Edit apache config.
- Edit master vhost file.
- Create ads.
- Edit files so you can disable ads on certain pages.
PHP must be enabled server wide for this to work, not to much of a biggie - you should offer PHP by default anyway, it's so common nowadays.
Step 1
Enable PHP system wide:
vi /etc/mime.types
Uncomment these 4 lines of code:
[...] #application/x-httpd-php phtml pht php #application/x-httpd-php-source phps #application/x-httpd-php3 php3 #application/x-httpd-php3-preprocessed php3p #application/x-httpd-php4 php4 [...]
vi /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php5.conf
Uncomment these 2 lines of code:
<IfModule mod_php5.c>
# AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml .php3 # AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps </IfModule>
Step 2
Editing Apache files:
vi /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
Towards the bottom of the apache2.conf you will find:
<Directory /var/www/sharedip> Options +Includes -Indexes AllowOverride None AllowOverride Indexes AuthConfig Limit FileInfo Order allow,deny Allow from all <Files ~ "^\.ht"> Deny from all </Files> </Directory>
Right after this add:
<Directory /var/www> Options +Includes -Indexes AllowOverride None AllowOverride Indexes AuthConfig Limit FileInfo Options Order allow,deny Allow from all <Files ~ "^\.ht"> Deny from all </Files> </Directory>
Under that you will find:
<Directory /var/www/*/web> Options +Includes -Indexes AllowOverride None AllowOverride Indexes AuthConfig Limit FileInfo Order allow,deny Allow from all <Files ~ "^\.ht"> Deny from all </Files> </Directory>
Change that to:
<Directory /var/www/*/web> Options +Includes -Indexes AllowOverride None AllowOverride Indexes AuthConfig Limit FileInfo Options Order allow,deny Allow from all <Files ~ "^\.ht"> Allow from root Deny from all </Files> </Directory>
Save and close.
Now let's restart Apache:
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Step 3
Creating a directory for ads:
mkdir /var/www/ads
Step 4
We are going to create one file. We will make header.php:
vi /var/www/ads/header.php
Now we must enter the info for the header ad file:
<? $adfrees = '/var/www/web1/web'; //Change this to the web you want without ads $dir = getcwd(); if ($dir == $adfrees) { echo ''; } else { echo ' AD CODE HERE '; } ?>
The first highlight is the directory name of the file you want without ads. The second highlight is where you would put your ad code from Google and such.
Step 5
We must now edit the master vhost file so it will automatically put ads in every single site forcefully.
vi /root/ispconfig/isp/conf/vhost.conf.master
Towards the bottom you will see:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(TRACE|TRACK)
RewriteRule .* - [F]
</IfModule>
Right below it add:
php_value output_buffering 4098
php_value auto_prepend_file '/var/www/ads/header.php'
AddType application/x-httpd-php htm
AddType application/x-httpd-php html
That code is if you want your ad on the top of the page if you want it on the bottom instead use this code:
php_value output_buffering 4098
php_value auto_append_file '/var/www/ads/footer.php'
AddType application/x-httpd-php htm
AddType application/x-httpd-php html
The highlighted part is where you would put your file name if you changed it.
Save and close this file then restart ISPConfig:
/etc/init.d/ispconfig_server restart
Done
That's it - you now have real forced ads that cannot come off of the page at all!
Written by: Joey C. (web-cave.net)
Help from: grandpagenocide (rhwebhosting.com) and Jcink (jcink.com)