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Then the webserver admin should work out how to stop google crawling his site and stop his site responding as any DNS name.
by nebulous1 8y ago
Then the webserver admin should work out how to stop google crawling his site and stop his site responding as any DNS name.
- hartator 8y agoDefault Nginx and Apache configs serve all IPs. If you don't share your server IP, it's reasonable to think your content won't be indexed by Google.
- Qwertie 8y agoGoogle seems to be very good at finding new never seen before content. If you don't want it public then put some kind of authentication on it.
- dx034 8y agoBut Google also always respects robots.txt. If you don't want your content to appear just put a deny all for all domains. You can easily set that up in nginx by returning static content, you don't even need to create a file in the right directories.
- human 8y agoUnless directory listing is turned on, I can’t see how Google would be able to index these PDFs given that no external links point to them.
- fjsolwmv 8y agoAnd presumably it doesn't guess PATHs because Larry Page isn't in jail.