[SOLVED] Work on cmsms online without the bots

[boby]

Hi,

I would like to work on a new web site online(in a subdomain), so that when I get it ready I'll replace the old one in the main domain.

But meanwhile I don't want my work in progress to be seen by the bots and appear in a google search.
Can you advise me on that? I am using cmsms 1.10.3

Thank you

[Wishbone]

Use your hosting control panel or .htaccess to password protect the directory.

[Wishbone]

Have a "coming soon" template and page, and have this be the default .. You can only access the site by going to subdomain.yourdomain.com/home .. Once it's live, have 'home' be the default page.

[boby]

thanks,
I protected my directory with .htaccess.
It is a bit slow but protected
thank you

[mcDavid]

CMSMS has a built-in feature for this, just click the "enable site down message" checkbox in Site Admin -> Global settings -> Site down settings

[Wishbone]

I don't think he wants Google to index a site down page. I guess that throws out my idea about a coming soon page as well.

[calguy1000]

use a site down page..
make sure your site-down page has the noindex/nofollow stuff
edit the robots.txt to not index the site.

[boby]

Finally I used a site down page. It's more convenient.

Only users logged in to the CMSMS admin console can see it, great... I didn't know

I keep the robots.txt simple:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Thanks to all ... I can now work on it