[solved] work offline

[DADOCTOR]

Hello,

I am working on my website, I have a blog and forum already running live and am now adding cms,

I am working on it while it is live and it could be accessed by anyone, but it would be hard to find it as you would have to enter the whole URL of the page with the right sub directory as well which I think would be very rare.

I have just noticed some pages are being indexed by Google which is not what I want, some are 404 not found but some are indexed to content I am still working on

What could I do to stop it being indexed, I am working on my own site, and dont do it professionally so I am not to sure what I can do to stop it.

Work off line?

any help would be great

Regards
Ryan

[replytomk3]

a) Robots exclude

b) Bring site down except for logged in IP address

c) htaccess filtering

[fredp]

a) Robots exclude

b) Bring site down except for logged in IP address

c) htaccess filtering

To expand on a):

There is robots.txt, of course, or you could add a meta tag to the pages/templates that you want search engines to ignore. There is an example of doing something like this with a User Defined Tag at the very end of this wiki page: User_Handbook>>Tips_And_Tricks>>Using_CMSMS_with_CloudFlare. It's not exactly what you need, but could be easily modified for your case.

[DADOCTOR]

Thanks guys

I will have a look at what you have said and linked to.

What about

b) Bring site down except for logged in IP address ?

How does this work, would I have to sort this out with my hosting ?

[uniqu3]

Look in "Site Admin -> Global Settings -> Site Down Settings"

[DADOCTOR]

Look in "Site Admin -> Global Settings -> Site Down Settings"

Thats a great option, thanks uniqu3.