lateral Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 Hi Guys I have a testing shop domain that is a duplicate of my production shop domain and although I had thought that I had set up the robots.txt file correctly, somehow Google found the testing site and indexed it. I has subsequently setup my htaccess file to password protect the entire site. Will this definitely stop ALL bots from searching and gaining access to my test shop domain? Thanks for your help. Regards Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Patron Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 it would be better to put shop in maint mode Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lateral Posted January 8, 2015 Author Share Posted January 8, 2015 Hi El Patron Why would it be better? Are you saying that the htaccess method doesn't block everything? Regards Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Patron Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 if you like the .htaccess then that is fine...maint mode is just another method Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lateral Posted January 8, 2015 Author Share Posted January 8, 2015 I'm thinking that the htaccess method is probably better for me as I may accidentally leave Maintenance mode turn off and therefore the "bots" could get in! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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