Topic: No Sticker (Banner) in Signature

[WeatherBeacon]

Sure. The new guy joins and needs help right away. I've searched the forum on this issue and applied what advice was given. Still I am stuck.

My wxsticker (version 5.x from anole) won't show in the signature area. Here's the situation:

1. My wxsticker works on my web site.
2. My .htaccess file is in folder: public_html/cgi-bin. The file was there when my account was created and has permissions 644.
3. Per several suggestions, I added the line:

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Redirect /sig.gif http://www.wxbeacon.com/wxsticker/sticker.php?type=banner_big
to file .htaccess. My sticker is in folder public_html/wxsticker.
4. I placed the code

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[url=http://www.wxbeacon.com][img]http://www.wxbeacon.com/sig.gif[/img][/url]
in my signature.
5. My sticker doesn't appear in my signature area. My link does.
6. Am I supposed to see a file called sig.gif somewhere on my server? If so, I don't.
7. The background of my sticker banner is jpeg. Does that matter?

Suggestions?

Thanks!

Kevin...

[Anole]

It's because phpBB will not allow php in the sig. To get around this you'll have to set a redirect on your server. You can set the redirect by creating/editing an .htaccess in the directory where you want the redirect or in most cases the control panel for your site will have a place to set redirects. You should always try the second option first because a) it's easier if you don't have any experience with .htaccess files and b) it eliminates the risk of messing up an existing .htaccess file.

What you would do is set the redirect to something like this:

/wxgraphic_banner.gif  to redirect to http://www.wxbeacon.com/sticker.php?type=banner_big

Then in your sig use http://www.wxbeacon.com/wxgraphic_banner.gif as the url of the image in your sig.[/img]

EDIT: Looking more closely at your specific problem I see your are attempting to do the above. You don't have your redirect set correctly though. http://www.wxbeacon.com/sig.gif gives me a 404. Try the control panel for your site and see if there is a place there to set the redirect instead of trying to edit the .htaccess file.

[WeatherBeacon]

Thanks, Anole!

I was able to do a redirect in my control panel. I looked at that option last night, but I was reluctant to do it because it was labeled "Site Redirect", and I was uncertain what that meant and didn't want to mess up my entire domain.

Thanks again!

Kevin...