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7 years 11 months ago #136638 by teksur
Prevent web robots to find a Limesurvey page was created by teksur
How do I do this?
I know that this (meta name="robots" content="noindex") could be used. Where do I put it?
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7 years 11 months ago #136642 by Ben_V
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startpage.pstpl file of (all) your template(s)

better use content="none" (instead "noindex")
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7 years 11 months ago #136643 by teksur
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Thanks a lot!
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7 years 11 months ago #136648 by DenisChenu
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Or directly add a robots.txt in your limesurvey directory
Code:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard
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7 years 11 months ago #136649 by Ben_V
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DenisChenu wrote: Or directly add a robots.txt in your limesurvey directory

Code:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /


Not valid if limesurvey is installed as a folder (robots.txt have to be in root directory)
... but you can place a htaccess file for this folder with the rule:
Code:
Header set X-Robots-Tag "noindex, nofollow"
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7 years 11 months ago #136659 by DenisChenu
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Ben_V wrote:

DenisChenu wrote: Or directly add a robots.txt in your limesurvey directory

Code:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /


Not valid if limesurvey is installed as a folder (robots.txt have to be in root directory)

Then
Code:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /limesurvey/

See wikipedia link ;)
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7 years 11 months ago - 7 years 11 months ago #136666 by Ben_V
Replied by Ben_V on topic Prevent web robots to find a Limesurvey page

DenisChenu wrote: Then

Code:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /limesurvey/


Of course but in this case you're revealing the path of your LS existing folder and some spam-bots don't care about "Disallow" rule... but it's ok for all major web crawlers

BTW users also interested in related "noarchive" rule may have a look at noarchive.net
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Last edit: 7 years 11 months ago by Ben_V.
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7 years 11 months ago #136678 by DenisChenu
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noarchive seems cool.

Think we can do a little plugin to add header on all LS page
Header set X-Robots-Tag "noindex, nofollow, noarchive, notranslate"
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7 years 11 months ago #136681 by Ben_V
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DenisChenu wrote: noarchive seems cool.

Think we can do a little plugin to add header on all LS page
Header set X-Robots-Tag "noindex, nofollow, noarchive, notranslate"


I'm sure it will be warmly appreciated ;)
Benoît

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