Products

Evoq Content Overview Content Creation Workflow Asset Management Mobile Responsive Personalization Content Analytics SEO Integrations Security Website PerformanceEvoq Engage Overview Community Management  Dashboard  Analytics  Member Profile Gamification Advocate Marketing Community Engagement  Ideas  Answers  Discussions  Groups  Wikis  Events Mobile ReadyDNN Support PackagesEvoq: CMS FeaturesEvoq OnDemandCompare DNN's CMS Products

Solutions

Content Management SystemMulti-Channel PublishingDigital MarketingOnline Community ManagementIntranet Software SolutionOur CustomersPrime

Resources

Test DrivesSchedule A DemoDocumentation CenterWebinarsWhite PapersProduct ManualsRequest PricingData SheetsCase StudiesEvoq Preferred Products Content Management Ecommerce Forms Identity Management and Authentication Site Management Social Themes

Partners

DNN Partners Partner Directory Become a DNN Partner Partner Program Overview  Hosting  Implementation  ISV  Training  Competencies

Community

Participate Ask a Question Forums Community Showcase DNN MVP  Program Overview  Lifetime MVPs  Honorary MVPs Subscribe to DNN Digest Advisory Groups  Awareness Advisory Group  Developer Advisory Group  Partner Advisory Group  Technology Advisory GroupLearn Documentation Wiki Community Blog Video Library Project History Development RoadmapDownload DNN Store Language Packs Manuals Nightly BuildsSecurity Policies Security Center

Blog

About

News Press Releases News Coverage Press KitCareersContact DNN

QA

Ideas Test

New Community Website

Ordinarily, you'd be at the right spot, but we've recently launched a brand new community website... For the community, by the community.

Yay... Take Me to the Community!

Welcome to the DNN Community Forums, your preferred source of online community support for all things related to DNN.
In order to participate you must be a registered DNNizen
HomeHomeUsing DNN Platf...Using DNN Platf...Administration ...Administration ...Need Advice: Block dev site from search spiders best approachNeed Advice: Block dev site from search spiders best approach
Previous
 
Next
New Post
5/2/2013 10:34 PM
 
Andrew Newth


Joined: 9/16/2004
Posts: 225

I recently has a situation where my development/staging site was indexed by Google. This has never occurred before so I was pretty surprised. Basically when we build a site we stage it on our production sever to finish off skin development and build out the structure. We use a sub-domain like dev.whateverthedomainis.com and once the site is ready for go-live we switch to live domain. In site alias setting we either delete the sub -domain alias or set it to redirect to default.

My question is how do I best prevent search spiders from indexing the staging site? And what is the best approach for handling the alias?

Thank very much,
 
New Post
5/3/2013 1:13 AM
 
Rodney Joyce


www.pokerdiy.com
Joined: 4/28/2004
Posts: 2796
I use a Robots file - e.g test.pokerdiy.com/robots.txt

Actually, this sums it up nicely: http://mitchelsellers.com/blogs/2012/...

Entrepreneur

PokerDIY Tournament Manager - PokerDIY Tournament Manager<
PokerDIY Game Finder - Mobile Apps powered by DNN
PokerDIY - Connecting Poker Players
 
New Post
5/6/2013 7:24 AM
 
Andrew Newth


Joined: 9/16/2004
Posts: 225
Cheers Rodney, had a good read of that and all makes sense.
 
New Post
5/6/2013 7:47 AM
 
Anna@CD


Joined: 10/9/2011
Posts: 47
Better idea is to disable anonymous authentication in IIS and run the dev site under Basic Auth. It puts a simple challenge response box up for people to log in to view the dev site, without having to have individual page permissions set. You can have individual portals under Basic while others in the same installation are public as well.
 
 Page 1 of 1
Previous
 
Next
HomeHomeUsing DNN Platf...Using DNN Platf...Administration ...Administration ...Need Advice: Block dev site from search spiders best approachNeed Advice: Block dev site from search spiders best approach


These Forums are dedicated to discussion of DNN Platform and Evoq Solutions.

For the benefit of the community and to protect the integrity of the ecosystem, please observe the following posting guidelines:

  1. No Advertising. This includes promotion of commercial and non-commercial products or services which are not directly related to DNN.
  2. No vendor trolling / poaching. If someone posts about a vendor issue, allow the vendor or other customers to respond. Any post that looks like trolling / poaching will be removed.
  3. Discussion or promotion of DNN Platform product releases under a different brand name are strictly prohibited.
  4. No Flaming or Trolling.
  5. No Profanity, Racism, or Prejudice.
  6. Site Moderators have the final word on approving / removing a thread or post or comment.
  7. English language posting only, please.
What is Liquid Content?
Find Out
What is Liquid Content?
Find Out
What is Liquid Content?
Find Out