Hotlinking Protection

[ChrisFirth]

Hi all,

One of our customers would like to use the hotlinking protection feature in cPanel, but for some reason it doesn't seem to work for them, and they get the following error:

Undefined subroutine &Cpanel::Hotlink::Hotlink_add called at (eval 54) line 1.
	eval 'Cpanel::Hotlink::Hotlink_add(@{$argref});' called at cpanel.pl line 1660
	main::exectag('<cpanel Hotlink="add($FORM{\'urls\'},$FORM{\'exts\'},$FORM{\'rur...') called at cpanel.pl line 4808
	main::dotag(undef) called at cpanel.pl line 4691
	main::cpanel_parseblock('SCALAR(0x2089180)') called at cpanel.pl line 4643
	main::cpanel_parse('GLOB(0xf54ad10)') called at cpanel.pl line 1318

To test if this was happening just for the one account, I created another test account on the server and the same error came up when I tried to enable hot linking protection.

I have also created a test account on a couple of other cPanel servers, and they get the same error message. All of the servers have this cPanel version:

cPanel 11.24.5-R38506 - WHM 11.24.2 - X 3.9

They are also running CentOS 5.3 x64.

Since I can't seem to get it working on different servers I am wondering if anyone else who is running the same cPanel version is having the same issue?

[MattCurry]

Hello,

I am sorry to hear that, and it does look like an issue. What I would reccomend would be to run

/scripts/upcp --force

and see if that resolves the issue. If it does not please submit a ticket so that we can make sure this isn't a bigger issue, and so we can get you all fixed up asap.

Thank you,
Matthew Curry

[ChrisFirth]

/scripts/upcp --force

Hi Matthew,

As the servers are in production at the moment, will running the above command take down cPanel or any of its services while its updating (except to restart the services).

Thanks

[cPanelKenneth]

Hi Matthew,

As the servers are in production at the moment, will running the above command take down cPanel or any of its services while its updating (except to restart the services).

Thanks

It will restart cPanel at the end of the update process. Other services ( e.g. exim ) may restart if they are updated.

[Spiral]

In plain English, no "/upcp --force" will not have any significant impact on your server operation other than a few "momentary" split second glitches as the processes are restarted after updating.

[ChrisFirth]

Thanks Spiral and Kenneth for the advice.

I have ran the update script and the problem still persists, I have just submitted a ticket for the issue.