Friday Updates

It’s been a busy week, and since today is a little slow, I thought I’d catch you up with some stuffz I’ve added to BaileyBeGood.com recently. 😉

It’s finally Friday — can you believe it! I thought it would never come. It’s the summer, and everyone’s still been so busy around here! I heard that today they’re gonna stick around for most of the day, so I thought it would be a good time for me to share some updates. 😉

Before I do that though, I wanted to share a bit of code to follow-up on my post yesterday (I’ve already added it to yesterday’s post).

Through a lot of searching, I have found that the way I was trying to prevent the hot-linking (or direct linking) of my images, was not entirely correct. Since I learned how to prevent another website from hot-linking my images, I’d like to share how you could do this if you have your own domain name. You can do various things with an .htaccess file, but the only thing the following code will do is block another website (unless you list it below) from displaying or linking directly to any file you specify.


RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(.*\.)?baileybegood.com [NC]
RewriteRule \.(jpeg|jpg|gif|png|pdf|doc)$ - [F]


In the above code, all you have to do is copy and paste the above code into a new Wordpad file, name it .htaccess (it will save as .htaccess.txt, but you can rename it after). Replace baileybegood.com with your own domain name, and include any other file extensions you need in the line beginning with RewriteRule. Then upload your .htaccess file to the same directory you want to prevent hot-linking (whether it’s your image directory, or download directory). Now anytime anyone tries to hot-link directly to anything in the .htaccess file-protected directory, they will see a broken image and receive an error. Keep in mine that if you have Feedburner for your RSS or any other website that needs to display your images or files, you should include them in the code above (just copy the line with the domain above and add it directly underneath; one line per domain).

I hope this helps you prevent hot-linking of your files! 🙂

• Biological Sister Search: Well, the other day mommy was thinking about my 1 year birthday that’s sneaking up (next week!)(I took a chance and contacted my Foster Mommy and the Director of the organization that rescued me from the streets. I never thought I’d get a response, or even better… a pawsitive one. Here’s what they said:
  From my Foster Mommy: Hi! Can’t believe it has been almost a year! I will check with the director to see about the other people who adopted Bailey’s sisters. I’ll get in touch soon.

  From the Director of the Rescue Organization: I’ll dig up everybody’s contracts and see how people respond. I think it’s a great idea to have all the sisters (and their owners of course) meet each other through Bailey’s website. I’m so glad that she’s such a big part of your family.

  I don’t know if I’ll ever get to meet my biological sisters, but at least I know I tried. 🙂
  

Bailey and I took the pledge over at My Dog Is Cool! Below is the photo we submitted for display on their website:

Don’t we look cool? Actually, we look pretty sleepy!

If you’d like to take the pledge too, hop on over to My Dog Is Cool!, take the pledge (print out the banner), and submit your photo! While you’re there, you can check the weather to see if it’s too hot to leave your furry in your car.

By the way… I wanted to thank my mommy and Taylor, for helping me with with all of this. Being a puppy, there was no way I had time to learn all of this by myself. Now I’m off to study! Teehee!

Countdown:

Days until I’m 1 year old: 8 days, on June 18!
Days until we blast off into space: 18 days, on June 28!

*Extra Woofies*

I want to let you all know that I’ve changed the word verification for comments. I know how frustrating the old reCaptcha phrases were to follow, so I searched really hard to find something that was easy-to-use for everyone.

If you are on a computer (desktop or laptop), all you have to do is drag the image that it tells you to, from the left to the right image. If you are using anything other than a computer (like an iPad, iPhone, or other mobile device), you just need to click on the correct matching image on the left (it will tell you). The image will then automatically appear over the image on the right.

If you are experiencing any problems, please let me know in your comment so I can alert the developers of any issues. I truly hope this image verification is easy for everyone — please let me know your thoughts! Don’t forget I have to personally approve your comment, so it won’t show up right away. 🙂

Happy Friday woofs & hugs,

~Bailey
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