On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com>wrote:
> To avoid a lot of ads, I use a trick where I identify the servers which
> are typically serving up ads, and remap them to 127.0.0.1 in my
> /etc/hosts file. This means I don't have to look at the ads. But it also
> means that I get a lot of apache barf on the page where the ad would be.
> The browser is trying to find whatever file is being asked for on my
> localhost, and apache can't find it (naturally). So there is 404 error
> text and the like.
>
> In order to avoid all this, is it possible to tell apache to server up a
> one-pixel graphic or somesuch whenever it's asked for a file I don't
> have? I don't actually serve any content from my localhost, even though
> apache is running in the background.
>
> Paul
>
> --
> Paul M. Foster
>
I believe you would have to use mod_rewrite to create a rewrite rule using
regexp. Unfortunately I don't really know regex all that well, but if all
fails here there's always #apache on irc.freenode.org
If you use an IP that isn't used or one in which a web server is not
running, instead of ads, you'll probably bog the browser down while it waits
for each ad to timeout. After a few moments you'll get 'the page cannot be
loaded' type messages so I think mod_rewrite is your best bet.
-- Clayton Holloway
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