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  • Martin 278 posts 661 karma points
    Sep 25, 2012 @ 13:15
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    Hide "Back Office" URL Content Node

    Hi all,

    Is there a way to hide a content node url.

    I have setup a site with all my public facing pages under a Home node.

    On the same level of the Home node I have a "Back Office" node which I use for a widget repository, error pages and the like. These pages all have a url.

    Is there a way to completley hide the "Back Office" content nodes urls?

    Currently if I view the url of a widget, it will redirect to the 404 page, but I dont want the urls to be viewed or to be indexed in search engines.

    Any help would be grateful.

    Martin

     

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  • Ian Robinson 76 posts 140 karma points
    Sep 25, 2012 @ 14:16
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    You could try these two approaches perhaps....  

    1) create a robots.txt file in the root of your website, telling any search engine crawlers to not index your widget repository (http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/robots.shtml), e.g.: 

    User-agent: *
Disallow: /site-settings/widget-repository/
Disallow: /site-settings/other-page-etc/

    2) redirect any requests to your widget-repository page using the Umbraco routing file found in /config/UrlRewriting.config, e.g.:

    <add name="widgetRedirect"
    redirect="Domain" 
            ignoreCase="true" rewriteUrlParameter="IncludeQueryStringForRewrite"
            virtualUrl="http://your-site/site-settings/widget-repository/" 
    redirectMode="Permanent"
            destinationUrl="http://your-site/" />
    Does that help?

     

     

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  • Martin 278 posts 661 karma points
    Sep 25, 2012 @ 14:48
    Martin
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    Thanks Ian, 

    I has thought of using the robots file, but was a little unsure of how succesful it would be.

    Redirecting the url looks like a bettre way to go.

    Thanks again.

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  • Funka! 398 posts 660 karma points
    Sep 26, 2012 @ 02:14
    Funka!
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    Take a look at U4-862 and up-vote it if you think this would be a useful addition/change to the core!

    Regardless, I think you'll find that (A) as long as you never create any of your own links to this "back-office" node of yourse, then search engines will never find it, and also (B) even if such a link did exist, the fact that it is returning a 404 (because it doesn't have a template) means that the search engine isn't going to index it...

    Best of luck!

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  • Martin 278 posts 661 karma points
    Nov 19, 2012 @ 11:24
    Martin
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    Hi, 

    I was just having a re-think on this as I only used the robot.txt file method suggested.

    Using the redirect method, is it possible to redirect all URL's under http://www.mysite.com/repository/ without having to enter every URL.

    I have given the user the ability to create widgets, with the url after repository could be anything.

    Any help would be grateful

     

     

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