[Webmaster_forum] Secure web site area for members only

[Lt. Julian Fiander, P]

If the USPS servers have PHP installed, there is a moderately simple method
of excluding any viewer, by either IP or name, from viewing any/all (your
choice as webmaster) pages on your site.

If it is not installed, then I can be of little assistance in this matter.

Lt. Julian Fiander
  Birmingham Power Squadron

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Penneman, Roger B <
roger.b.penneman at lmco.com> wrote:

> My impression was that the password-protected area mentioned in the
> beginning of the thread would be blocked from search engines, as well as
> anyone else without the password.  Doesn't the meta tag "robot"
> accomplish the same thing as robot.txt, but applied to individual pages?
>
> Roger Penneman
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John R. Bradley [mailto:jrb at accurecord.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 9:09 AM
> To: 'Dan Bartell'; 'Phil Arcuni'
> Cc: Penneman, Roger B; 'two way communication for webmasters'
> Subject: RE: [Webmaster_forum] Secure web site area for members only
>
> Isn't this a question of having a facility to maintain robots.txt which
> sits at \web\webroot and is suppose to tell indexing robots where not to
> go? Or alternatively if we had a policy of allowing a "secure" directory
> under any localusps directory that wants a secure directory we could add
> a statement like DISALLOW \localusps\*\secure and accomplish the desired
> result.
> John Bradley
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Bartell [mailto:dtb at usps.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 11:12 PM
> To: Phil Arcuni
> Cc: John Bradley; Penneman, Roger B; two way communication for
> webmasters
> Subject: Re: [Webmaster_forum] Secure web site area for members only
>
> Understand Guys that this is what Dave turned up and I did tell you guys
> a while back that one of the major problems was that google would index
> everything.
>
> You need to get Dave to tell people how to exclude directories from the
> search and he needs to manage that.
>
> Cheers,
> Dan
> PS:  Other than this problem the search works great At 15:36 3/12/2008,
> Phil Arcuni wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >This scheme is still posted, and you are the most knowledgeable on the
> >subject. I did notice that the older IP address is still showing.
> >Please respond to the query at your earliest convenience.
> >
> >Best, Phil
> >
> >P/R/C Philip Arcuni, SN
> >Information Technology Committee
> >
> >----- Original Message ----- From: "Penneman, Roger B"
> ><roger.b.penneman at lmco.com>
> >To: <plarcuni at sprynet.com>
> >Cc: "two way communication for webmasters" <webmaster_forum at usps.org>
> >Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 2:48 PM
> >Subject: [Webmaster_forum] Secure web site area for members only
> >
> >
> >>Is this technique for creating password-protected areas on squadron
> >>websites still valid?
> >>http://www.usps.org/national/itcom/shared/help/simple_password.html
> >>
> >>Lately it seems that anything on the national server is available to
> >>Google, to the point that I now have to scrub our newsletter before
> >>posting a pdf version.  So I want to set up a secure area for pages
> >>that contain private information.  Any tips?
> >>
> >>Thanks.
> >>
> >>Roger Penneman
> >>Fort Worth
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> >
> >_______________________________________________
> >P/C Dan Bartell, SN
> >SEO - Shallotte River Sail & Power Squadron - D27 (NC)
> >Member USPS National Information Technology Committee
>
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