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[SOLVED] Work on cmsms online without the bots
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 10:10 pm
by 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
Re: Work on cmsms online without the bots
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 10:28 pm
by Wishbone
Use your hosting control panel or .htaccess to password protect the directory.
Re: Work on cmsms online without the bots
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 10:29 pm
by 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.
Re: Work on cmsms online without the bots
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 3:45 pm
by boby
thanks,
I protected my directory with .htaccess.
It is a bit slow but protected
thank you
Re: Work on cmsms online without the bots
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 5:39 pm
by 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
Re: Work on cmsms online without the bots
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 5:45 pm
by 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.
Re: Work on cmsms online without the bots
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 5:52 pm
by 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.
Re: Work on cmsms online without the bots
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 7:03 pm
by 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