Simple fix for "blank" MOTD

FlyingMongoose · Post by **FlyingMongoose** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 4:08 pm

This may have been posted before

Okay, the main reason this does this is that the coding system for the MOTD is a little shotty and doesn't allow a lot of HTML codes. So here's what you put in your MOTD to fix it.

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<html>
<head>
<title>Cstrike MOTD</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#000000" scroll="no">
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0;url=INSERTYOURMOTDURLHERE">
</body>
</html>

Make where it says "INSERTYOURMOTDURLHERE" put in a website address to a MOTD that you may have. Mine links to http://eba.flyingmongoose.net/motd.html

What this will do is automatically redirect your MOTD to another web page to allow it to "decode" the file properly. Since it's pointing to a .html file instead of a .txt file.

Basically valve didn't have the common sense when they decided to make the motd HTML compliant to at least give it a .html or .htm extension.

Note: This may not work with EVERY type of file extension/format (I haven't tested php, asp, phtml, php3, shtml, or shtm)

FlyingMongoose · Post by **FlyingMongoose** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 4:11 pm

Adding to the list of "untested formats"

pl, and cgi.

FlyingMongoose · Post by **FlyingMongoose** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 4:13 pm

I thought it would be useful to people

Nick|NFo · Post by **Nick|NFo** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 5:29 pm

Good post, just thought I would add a little something.

If you just put the url to the website as the first line of the motd.txt and nothing else, it will display the website just like your code does.

Just like http://rentals.nuclearfallout.net will show the NFo Rentals site.

FlyingMongoose · Post by **FlyingMongoose** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 6:03 pm

I honestly did not know that.

Though the basic idea is that the motd.txt can't show certain HTML so it'll make it blank. So you tell it to redirect.

FlyingMongoose · Post by **FlyingMongoose** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 7:16 am

Anyway, this actually probably doesn't come up a lot, but a sticky for those who care might be nice. lol.

Wolverine · Post by **Wolverine** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:43 pm

heres my motd and it works flawlessly

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Cstrike MOTD</title>
<style type="text/css">
pre 	{
		font-family:Verdana,Tahoma;
		color:#FFB000;
    	}
body	{
		background:#000000;
		margin-left:8px;
		margin-top:0px;
		}
a	{
    	text-decoration:    underline;
	}
a:link  {
    color:  #FFFFFF;
    }
a:visited   {
    color:  #FFFFFF;
    }
a:active    {
    color:  #FFFFFF;
    }
a:hover {
    color:  #FFFFFF;
    text-decoration:    underline;
    }
</style>
</head>
<body scroll="no">
<pre>
</pre>
<center>
<img src="http://location.of.picture.net/name.jpg" width="755" height="375"</img>
</center>

</body>
</html>

Wolverine · Post by **Wolverine** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:44 pm

well who's the idiot now. Cant edit posts here and I've out my url. What a dumbass I am

Wolverine · Post by **Wolverine** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:51 pm

any site moderator feel free to delete my url inthe code lol

Nick|NFo · Post by **Nick|NFo** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:54 pm

Wolverine wrote:any site moderator feel free to delete my url inthe code lol

Done and thanks for sharing

Wolverine · Post by **Wolverine** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:55 pm

FlyingMongoose · Post by **FlyingMongoose** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 6:06 am

That's fine because it's just an image, however I wish to use more code than motd usually supports. So I do the above posted