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[Phpgedview-talk] Hiding PGV from spiders

[Jane C. <sta...@gm...>]

I am using phpgedview as a way of sharing my genealogy data between my Linux
computer and my Windows laptop.  At this time I'd like to keep my web site
and its data absolutely private--accessible only by me.  I know there are
various ways to restrict the data after an outside user has found the
website, but I'd prefer to block spiders from indexing it.  Is there any way
to do this in the config settings? There used to be an html setting "no
follow" or something like that which I've used in the past and it seemed to
work, but do I have access to the raw html for phpgedview?
Thanks for any suggestions.

Re: [Phpgedview-talk] Hiding PGV from spiders

[Kyle M. <mat...@gm...>]

Is your linux computer on a private network?  I.e. is it connected directly
to the internet or is it behind a router?  Because if it is on a private
network not on the public internet, no one from the internet will be able to
access it.

Kyle

On 7/14/07, Jane Ciosek <sta...@gm...> wrote:
>
> I am using phpgedview as a way of sharing my genealogy data between my
> Linux computer and my Windows laptop.  At this time I'd like to keep my web
> site and its data absolutely private--accessible only by me.  I know there
> are various ways to restrict the data after an outside user has found the
> website, but I'd prefer to block spiders from indexing it.  Is there any way
> to do this in the config settings? There used to be an html setting "no
> follow" or something like that which I've used in the past and it seemed to
> work, but do I have access to the raw html for phpgedview?
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
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Re: [Phpgedview-talk] Hiding PGV from spiders

[Jonathan A. <jon...@he...>]

Jane Ciosek wrote:
I'd prefer to block spiders from indexing it.  Is there any
> way
> to do this in the config settings? There used to be an html setting "no
> follow" or something like that which I've used in the past and it seemed to
> work, but do I have access to the raw html for phpgedview?
> Thanks for any suggestions.
> 
The instruction you are thinking of is:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">

inserted in the Head part of your html pages.

You could also try creating a robots.txt file containing just the following:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

This file goes in your documentroot.

Of course, this being the Internet there is no guarantee that spiders 
will obey your requests, but I assume the site is password protected 
anyway :).

The robots.txt file seems to work for me---Google at least doesn't index 
my site.

Jon