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Topic: give access to google only

Posted By: narang.mohit
Subject: give access to google only
Date Posted: 03 August 2007 at 10:03am

hi i want that only google will access my forum actually i restrict user(who are not registred in my forum) to access the forum without registration
i want that only google can access the forum

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Posted By: iSec
Date Posted: 03 August 2007 at 2:45pm

Create a robot file and customize it to allow google and disallow others: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=create+robot+file - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=create+robot+file

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Posted By: the boss
Date Posted: 06 August 2007 at 5:14am

and use useragent filter in HTTP server tags

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Posted By: peter123
Date Posted: 08 August 2007 at 2:14pm

Info_Tech wrote:

Create a robot file and customize it to allow google and disallow others: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=create+robot+file - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=create+robot+file

How could I customize the robot.txt to allow google?

Posted By: iSec
Date Posted: 09 August 2007 at 1:27am

peter123 wrote:

How could I customize the robot.txt to allow google?

By default, everyone is allowed, including google.

However, if you want to disallow someone specific, for example Yahoo! then you can do this:

# robots.txt file for my website
# feel free to contact us @....
User-agent: Yahoo
Disallow: /

In the above example yahoo will be disallowed from viewing the entire site... if you want it to be disallowed from only one folder then you can sepcify just that one folder's path.
For example: disallow /temp

this will prevent yahoo from viewing the temp folder.

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Posted By: peter123
Date Posted: 09 August 2007 at 7:23am

ok...but..I want that google as guest can see the data on forum, which are hidden for nonregister user.

Posted By: iSec
Date Posted: 09 August 2007 at 9:56am

That you will need to post a support question in the support forum.

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Posted By: Scotty32
Date Posted: 09 August 2007 at 12:33pm

you could create a user called "GoogleBot" and check the User Agent if it contains googlebot then "log them in".

and give them read access but not post access.

though it could potentially be 'hacked' as all someone needs to do is change their user agent. or by viewing the cached page

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