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[joomla] Controling google bots and restricting component access

Stephen Britton sbritton at gmail.com
Fri Sep 14 10:14:34 EDT 2012


Did you edit the robots.txt file? Joomla's default robots file restricts
access to several directories, including components and templates.
On Sep 14, 2012 9:00 AM, "Kirill Poliakov" <Kirill at hostnetservices.com>
wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I have an issue with a site.  Most content requires a logon, so I am
> confused how Google bot was able to crawl the site to restricted menu
> options without access to them.
>
> Here is a link to logon page
>
> http://www.campwinnetaska.com/camp/index.php?option=com_content&view=featured&Itemid=435
>
> Here is a link to Google search result that shows restricted conten
>
>
> https://www.google.com/search?q=1957+Inaweke&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
>
>
> First, can anybody advise how to restrict Google bot from scanning the
> full site.
> Then, how do I restrict access to a component to registered users only   -
> I am controlling access through menu restriction.  Now that Google exposed
> restricted pages I need to restrict access to the component to registered
> users only
>
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
>
> Kirill
>
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