link-o-rama.com To Join SOPA Strike Tomorrow (Jan 18th)

[Greenguy]

On January 18th, 2012 the internet is going on strike to stop the web censorship bills in Congress! Now is our moment— we need you to do everything you can, whether you have a website or not.

http://sopastrike.com/

Anyone else care to join me? cd34 is testing out a .htaccess redirect code for me (which I will post for anyone that wants to use it)

[Fonz]

Confirmed Participants: Google, Wikipedia, ...

Will they really go offline for 12 hours? That would draw someone's attention.

[Greenguy]

Google's not going offline at all, but they will be putting a link on their home page about their protesting of SOPA.

Wikipedia will be blacking out all of their English sites/pages.

[Useless]

Here's a little article I read about 503ing your site in order to appease Googlebot. http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/01/protest-sopa-blackout-your-website-the-google-friendly-way/

[PhoneMistress]

I think Wikipedia is going completely dark (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Action):

Therefore, on behalf of the English Wikipedia community, the Wikimedia Foundation is asked to allocate resources and assist the community in blacking out the project globally for 24 hours starting at 05:00 UTC on January 18, 2012, or at another time as determined by the Wikimedia Foundation.

[Cleo]

I'm still trying to figure out why SOPA is so much worse than doing nothing at all.

[ArtWilliams]

The DNS blocking provisions have just been removed by the bill's sponsor and Obama is suggesting a veto. SOPA may not be dead but it is pretty close.

Internet Rejoices (http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/01/internet-rejoices-sopa-is-at-deaths-door/251517/)

[Greenguy]

This is the page I'm going to send everyone to tomorrow from 8 AM to 8 PM EST:
http://www.link-o-rama.com/sopa.html

cd34 (Love Him!) came up with the following .htaccess file for me to use:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/robots.txt$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/sopa.html$
RewriteRule .* /sopa.html [R=503,L]

Here's a little article I read about 503ing your site in order to appease Googlebot. http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/01/protest-sopa-blackout-your-website-the-google-friendly-way/

Yup - that looks to be a write-up on this post that cd34 found for me:
https://plus.google.com/115984868678744352358/posts/Gas8vjZ5fmB

[Useless]

Super! I'm going to do that on Perv too.|thumb

[Useless]

The DNS blocking provisions have just been removed by the bill's sponsor and Obama is suggesting a veto. SOPA may not be dead but it is pretty close.

Internet Rejoices (http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/01/internet-rejoices-sopa-is-at-deaths-door/251517/)I heard that Rupert Murdoch, that cunt, is going to have a stroke over this whole thing. He's PISSED at Obama.
|lol|

[The Epic]

Just curious, is that every page on your website redirects to that page?

[Greenguy]

Just curious, is that every page on your website redirects to that page?Yes

[LeRoy]

I'm down for it!

[Greenguy]

Well, I tried the code this morning & it didn't 100% work (guess I should have tried it yesterday lol) It does return a 503 error message, but it didn't show my SOPA page - http://www.link-o-rama.com/sopa.html

I've asked cd34 to look into it for me. I have an early doctor's appt, so when he fixes it, if I'm not here, I've asked him to post the corrected code for everyone that wants it :)

[cd34]

ErrorDocument 503 /sopa.html
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/robots.txt$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/sopa.html$
RewriteRule .* - [R=503,L]


is the correct version.

[Useless]

ErrorDocument 503 /sopa.html
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/robots.txt$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/sopa.html$
RewriteRule .* - [R=503,L]


is the correct version.

|thumb Working beautifully. Thanks cd!