MetaMirror 1.6.1

[StarArmy]

I just installed it and in the options, the link to the test tool is broken (it did not include the forum directory in the URL, e.g. it was http://example.com/admin.php?MetaMirror instead of http://example.com/forum/admin.php?MetaMirror

Also, the actual plugin options header is misspelled as "MetaMirror Image Reshosting"

 

[StarArmy]

Is this still being maintained? Will it be compatible with XenForo 1.5?

 

[Mick West]

I'm maintaining it, as I use it constantly on my own forum. I have no plans to add features though.

It seems to work fine on 1.5. I updated yesterday, and images are being rehosted just the same. have not been able to extensively test the retroactive hosting though.

 

[Nuno]

Hi

I'm going to use this addon but would like to know what can I do to fetch hundred of linked images I have now?

Thanks

 

[Nuno]

Hi

Since images are all saved in the same directory I would like to suggest a structure to house lots of images:

MetaMirror/a/
MetaMirror/b/

I'd this hard to implement?

Thanks

 

[Mick West]

Hi

I'm going to use this addon but would like to know what can I do to fetch hundred of linked images I have now?

Thanks

There's a cron entry as part of the plugin that slowly scans old posts

Hi

Since images are all saved in the same directory I would like to suggest a structure to house lots of images:

MetaMirror/a/
MetaMirror/b/

I'd this hard to implement?

Thanks

I'm not planning on adding any new features to Metamirror

 

[kankan]

Hi @Mick West

When running the test, systems tells 4 contents, but it does not display any post/sigs below.
Any idea of what is wrong ?

Thanks for support.

 

[Mick West]

Hi @Mick West

When running the test, systems tells 4 contents, but it does not display any post/sigs below.
Any idea of what is wrong ?

Thanks for support.

View attachment 125559

That means the posts and/or sigs did not have images in them.

 

[MstrfBlng]

Will this add-on work with XF1.5 and PHP7?

 

[Mick West]

Will this add-on work with XF1.5 and PHP7?

I use XF1.5.4, but I've only tested it with PHP 5.5.9

 

[MstrfBlng]

@Mick West I will try it soon. What happens with 404 Images between IMG tags? Do you leave those untouched? Or are we able to remove the IMG tags and replace it with 'Image no longer available' or something like that?

 

[Mick West]

@Mick West I will try it soon. What happens with 404 Images between IMG tags? Do you leave those untouched? Or are we able to remove the IMG tags and replace it with 'Image no longer available' or something like that?

There's an option to flag them.

 

[Marks534]

Hi there,

I honestly love this addon however I have one issue.
My site has been victim of DDoS attacks frequently and to prevent this I've decided to go with Cloudflare. Cloudflare is a reverse proxy which hides your IP of your webserver.

With your addon, people are able to upload images to their own servers and have it log the IP that accessed the image.

I personally only need the addon for a single site (imgur.com). Imgur has blocked all their images on my forum since I'm a commercial site. So could you make it configurable so only images from certain sites get hosted?
I'm willing to pay for this if needed.

Thanks!

 

[StarArmy]

@Marks534

Why not just use it for all sites? Cloudflare will help minimize the bandwidth costs of hosting the images. If you use TLS (https) for your forum (all forums should), you will need to rehost or cache the external images anyway.

As for imgur, this plugin will not help you with that. Your server can't use Cloudflare as a proxy to sneak around imgur's ban on your site, and Metamirror will not change that. If your site can't load images from imgur, metamirror will have nothing to store.

 

[Marks534]

Why not just use it for all sites? Cloudflare will help minimize the bandwidth costs of hosting the images. If you use TLS (https) for your forum (all forums should), you will need to rehost or cache the external images anyway.

If I make it imgur only I don't have to worry about our backend IP getting leaked.
Otherwise members can upload images to their own servers and grab our IP there when the addon tries to download the image.

As for imgur, this plugin will not help you with that. Your server can't use Cloudflare as a proxy to sneak around imgur's ban on your site, and Metamirror will not change that. If your site can't load images from imgur, metamirror will have nothing to store.

The block is domain based.

 

[StarArmy]

If I make it imgur only I don't have to worry about our backend IP getting leaked.
Otherwise members can upload images to their own servers and grab our IP there when the addon tries to download the image.

Oh, I get what you're saying now.

I'm still not sure that, even with this Add-on and Cloudflare, you could pull images from imgur while it's blocking your domain.

 

[Marks534]

I'm still not sure that, even with this plugin, you could pull images from imgur while it's blocking your domain.

I can right now. It's using my server IP and not going through my domain.
That's why I think this would be the only solution.

 

[Kintaro]

There's an option to flag them.

View attachment 126278

Is it possibile to flag only without store IMG as attachment?

 

[vinafix]

JPG ok, PNG error

 

[Nuno]

Hi,

@Mick West if we rehost images locally, can these be rehosted again as attachments in the future?

Thanks