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I am just tearing my hair out over trying to host the pictures for my custom mood themes on my own website rather than in LJ ScrapBook, which is where they currently are. (I'm considering letting my paid account lapse, so ScrapBook would go with that. Technically you don't get custom mood themes with a basic account, but if you have one already in place, it's supposed to stick, although you can't make further changes to it.) If I turn off hotlinking protection, everything is hunky-dory, but I want that on. And I can't seem to enter anything in the allowed referers list that actually works and lets the images appear. It won't take input like .insanejournal.com; it apparently has to be a full URL beginning with http://, and besides that, http://www.insanejournal.com doesn't make it work anyway. I can only assume that the actual http request is coming from some other server name, but I can't figure out what. (I happened to be testing on IJ because I want it to work there too, but my recollection is of having similar problems on LJ the last time I tried this with hotlink protection. I assume the same will be the case on Dreamwidth.) edit 2: No, in fact, the case is that the referer changes to match the account name of the person reading their flist. (I could add my own journal name to the list but it would only work if someone viewed the journal directly.) With wildcard entries simply getting erased if I try to add them to the whitelist, I can't see how it's feasible to add all possible referers. Argh.
I really don't want to do something like start a Photobucket account just for this. There should be a way to make this work but I am just at my wits' end.
edit 1: Really, I suppose I could learn to live without the mood themes; most of the time I forget to set a mood on posts anyway. But I need a place to stick pictures when I just want to display them in my journal, which is the other main thing I use ScrapBook for. I suppose if it came to it I could stick them in my deviantArt scraps or flickr or something, but it doesn't seem like the "right" solution somehow.
I really don't want to do something like start a Photobucket account just for this. There should be a way to make this work but I am just at my wits' end.
edit 1: Really, I suppose I could learn to live without the mood themes; most of the time I forget to set a mood on posts anyway. But I need a place to stick pictures when I just want to display them in my journal, which is the other main thing I use ScrapBook for. I suppose if it came to it I could stick them in my deviantArt scraps or flickr or something, but it doesn't seem like the "right" solution somehow.
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Date: Mar. 9th, 2010 09:44 pm (UTC)From:You have a custom mood theme on your IJ account. You want to have the images for this theme be on your own server, and you want them to be visible when referenced from... let's say, from any page in the *.insanejournal.com/* namespace. However, if they're hotlinked from anywhere else, the viewer should get whatever error message is normally supplied by the hotlinking protection.
Have I got that right?
Assuming I do:
What server software are you using? (The log entries you showed me don't seem to be from Apache.)
What hotlinking blocker are you using?
FWIW, my LJ account still has a custom mood theme, and I can show you the sorts of referrer values I wind up with. It tends to look something like:
http://starlightforest.livejournal.com/friends
http://someuser.livejournal.com/friends?skip=35
http://otheruser.livejournal.com/friends/Some+Filter
And so on.