How to hide files on my site

gragster

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May 24, 2008

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• Aug 10, 2008

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Hey guys I got a newb question. Im using cpanel how can I keep people from going to my main domain and being able to see all my files. I dont want them to see them unless they know the location. Thanks.

Any help is greatly appriciated.

 

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sidddd

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May 15, 2008

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• Aug 10, 2008

• #2

Use ftp friend... download Filezilla free ftp software and login,now make a new directory and upload files

 

gragster

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disregard I found it you turn off indexing in cpanel

 

xcubic

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Or you can code a robots.txt file or put a blank html file in each directory where you have files.

 

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chriswatt

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Aug 10, 2008

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i agree with xcubic. robot.txt with nofollow is the way to go

 

siberia77

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• Aug 16, 2008

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chriswatt said:

i agree with xcubic. robot.txt with nofollow is the way to go

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agreed .

 

catman08

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Jan 11, 2008

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• Aug 16, 2008

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be carefully with the robot.txt ... you can enter this file in your browsers url and then see all the places the SE is not supposed to go to. If you add your hidden locations in there then people just figured them out right away.

P.S. One way to get free downloads :-D

 

bhnoobz

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• Aug 17, 2008

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upload an .htaccess file in the folder you don't want to have indexes enabled on with the content below:

Code:

Options -Indexes

alternatively you could upload a blank index.html/php file..

 

bhnoobz

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xcubic said:

Or you can code a robots.txt file or put a blank html file in each directory where you have files.

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that will only stop search engines from indexing the directory. He's talking about the default action of browseable directories when there's not an index.html/php file.