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SlurpConfirm404

Another of my daily bad habits (yes, amonsgt many) is the continious monitering of my logs. At any given time I am watching the logs of my websites. Beleive it or not, sometimes this pays off! And other times, it brings more questions to mind which.. yes, I am going to search, read and learn until my questions are satisfied.

This time, I happen to be watching my logs and noticed that Yahoo’s Slurp engine was searching for pages that did not exist on my site. I had to stop and think about it for a minute, but I realized that the pages it was searching for were not only ones that did not exist, but they never had existed!

Now, through the various versions of my sites, of course pages have moved. And when this happens, search engines still might be looking for the old and outdated ones. But in this case, /SlurpConfirm404/Schultz/HSchorus.htm (see the image above) brought a big HUH?? to my lips.

I would like to apologize to everyone. It seems that the Study Guide I have made some how becamse corrupt.

Thanks to some people posting and making me aware, I was able to learn that 

• CWNA Study Guide PWO-100
• CompTIA’s Linux+ Cheat Sheet (XK0-002)
• Comp TIA’s Security+ Cheat Sheet

All somehow have become corrupt and are now not able to open in MS Word. I am not sure what the problem is. I have run a few tests on it and when I try to open it in MS Word 2007, I get a message it is not avaiable, but yet when I test it in a couple other operating system and Office Suites it works fine. I am currently working on a solution and trying to find a back up copy to replace the corrupt ones with. I will hopeyfully have a good copy up by the end of the day.

Using an .htaccess file in the root of your site, you can stop others from hotlinking to your files. Whether it is images, .zip files or executables, others hotlinking to them is stealing your bandwidth. To prevent this, you can paste this into a file, upload it to the root of your website and then rename the file to .htaccess

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www.)?yourdomain.com [NC]
RewriteRule .(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|exe|zip)$ - [NC,F,L]

replace yourdomain.com with the name of your domain.com, yourdomain.net etc.

If you want to redirect the hotlinker to an image that shows you do not want others to hotlink to you - such as

No More Hotlinking!

Use the following statements in your .htaccess file but make sure you do not place the image on the site itself you do not want hotlinking from.