[SOLVED] Stop people linking my web site

mahan77 · 04-18-2013, 06:15 AM

Can somebody explain. I have web site call www.sathees.co.uk information on this site just for my work Colleague , it's no good to anybody else. But some reason www.energysaving247.co.uk and www.multlockwatchlock.co.uk linked to my site(I think via ip). Why they do this and how can I stop this? Any help and advice will be great.

TobiSGD · 04-18-2013, 06:30 AM

Use a htaccess file to password protect your site, so that it is irrelevant if someone creates a link to it.

manu-tm · 04-18-2013, 07:04 AM

You can find out "who they are" with (in a terminal):

Code:

whois energysaving247.co.uk

Code:

whois multlockwatchlock.co.uk

unSpawn · 04-18-2013, 01:06 PM

Moved: This thread is more suitable in the Linux Server forum (not a Linux Security issue) and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.

schneidz · 04-18-2013, 01:48 PM

kinda' impossible to stop others from linking to your site (short of taking it offline).

its kinda' like asking how to prevent people from knocking on your door ?

Habitual · 04-18-2013, 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by schneidz

kinda' impossible to stop others from linking to your site (short of taking it offline).

its kinda' like asking how to prevent people from knocking on your door ?

Not "impossible"

Code:

iptables -A INPUT -s 82.165.11.220 -j DROP

or

Code:

deny from 82.165.11.220

in an .htaccess file.

Anyone see anything amiss with that advice?

schneidz · 04-18-2013, 04:27 PM

^ i am not sure if that would block the ip-address of the person clicking on the link

or block everyone clicking on that link from that referrer ?

unSpawn · 04-18-2013, 04:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Habitual

Anyone see anything amiss with that advice?

Yeah, the amount of host names assigned to the IPv4 address (I count 10). Don't get me wrong, I'm definitely in favor of network layer blocking over anything else, but in this case one of them application level anti-deep-linking tools may help. I mean protocol-wise shouldn't you see a referrer header?..

TenTenths · 04-19-2013, 03:49 AM

If you know your collegue is only going to be accessing from a specific IP address then use .htaccess to block everything except valid IP addresses, or make use of basic authentication as per post #2

JJJCR · 04-19-2013, 05:11 AM

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Originally Posted by schneidz

kinda' impossible to stop others from linking to your site (short of taking it offline).

its kinda' like asking how to prevent people from knocking on your door ?

Totally Agree with schneidz, it's quite impossible. Don't you want it your site will gain more popularity?

Or you can put a Disclaimer.

Anyone who will put a link back to my website, is punishable by a million pinch. LOL.

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I don't know whether there is some configuration to allow only one or two IPs to view your site then everything else will be block.

TenTenths · 04-19-2013, 05:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JJJCR

Don't you want it your site will gain more popularity?

As the original poster said:

Quote:

Originally Posted by mahan77

information on this site just for my work Colleague , it's no good to anybody else.

What I do find funny is that the original poster has also linked to his site from here!

manu-tm · 04-19-2013, 06:54 AM

Code:

whois energysaving247.co.uk | grep -A 2 Registrar
    Registrar:
        Ascio Technologies Inc t/a Ascio Technologies inc [Tag = ASCIO]
        URL: http://www.ascio.com

 whois multlockwatchlock.co.uk | grep -A 2 Registrar
    Registrar:
        Webfusion Ltd t/a 123-reg [Tag = 123-REG]
        URL: http://www.123-reg.co.uk

First one seems to be some kind of marketing crap (IM0). You could first try and contact them.

schneidz · 04-19-2013, 08:19 AM

instead of using a public forum like the world wide web why dont you use something meant for private sharing like scp ?

Habitual · 04-19-2013, 06:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by unSpawn

Yeah, the amount of host names assigned to the IPv4 address (I count 10). Don't get me wrong, I'm definitely in favor of network layer blocking over anything else, but in this case one of them application level anti-deep-linking tools may help. I mean protocol-wise shouldn't you see a referrer header?..

Yeah, shared-hosting sucks?

k3lt01 · 04-19-2013, 06:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mahan77

Can somebody explain. I have web site call www.sathees.co.uk information on this site just for my work Colleague , it's no good to anybody else. But some reason www.energysaving247.co.uk and www.multlockwatchlock.co.uk linked to my site(I think via ip). Why they do this and how can I stop this? Any help and advice will be great.

Put the site into a dropbox or owncloud folder, create a share link and send it only to your colleague. Remove the site from the server it is currently on. Problem solved. I do this with sites I create as practise activities so that people I know can comment on them.