September 2003
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
8h 39m
English
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“Brought to you by” Rendezvous Ad Redirector
Spam your fellow Rendezvous users with sponsored links.
Note that you may only use this hack for the forces of Good.
In [Hack #29], we saw how simple it is to advertise arbitrary services using Rendezvous in any Posix operating system, Mac OS X, or even Windows. This makes it easy to provide easy reference links to every user on your wireless network.
Wouldn’t it be nice to give those same users a public service announcement en route to their destination, to let them know who was kind enough to provide the link? You could even give them more information about yourself or the network you provide before they head out to the Internet. This is easily achieved with a simple application of Apache magic.
In the httpd.conf
on your web
server, create a new VirtualHost entry like
this:
<VirtualHost *> ServerName adserver.local DocumentRoot /home/rob/ads/ </VirtualHost>
You can, of course, call the server anything you want, and put the
DocumentRoot wherever is convenient. Restart
your Apache for the change to take effect. Just be sure that the
ServerName ends in .local.
Now create as many html files in DocumentRoot as you like, using this as a template:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="5;http://freenetworks.org" />
</head>
<body>
<h1>This Rendezvous link brought to you by: me!</h1>
Redirecting you automatically in five seconds...
</body>
</html>The URL at the end of the Refresh line will be the users’ final destination, and the number ...