Eric, If you're willing to have your forums crawled and indexed by public search engines, then you might be saying that you want your forum information to be publicly available. If that's the case, then you may have a mismatch in your desired policy (public availability) and your implemented policy (login required to access the forums). You could resolve that such that the forums present an unauthenticated guest view and CAS authentication is optional. Then a search engine might be able to crawl the site without logging in.
Example: The Free Software Foundation happens to have an online forum, and use CAS for login. You can go here without logging in: http://www.fsf.org/associate/forum So CAS isn't preventing that page from being search engine indexed. If you try to access any of the fora on that page, CAS authentication is required, so CAS is preventing those pages from being indexed. If your requirements are such that you want pages to be indexed, you could change your policy and your implementation of the CAS integration to allow anonymous access to more content. If you don't want your forum to be available to people who don't log in via CAS, then you probably shouldn't want it to be Google indexed, since Google indexing will expose information about the forum contents to people who may not have logged in via CAS. This explanation helping any? Andrew On Jan 13, 2012, at 1:55 PM, ivanhoe wrote: > I have a Vanilla forum which is CASified. I would like the pages of this > forum to be indexed by search engines such as Google. But I suppose that if > Google search engine wants to access those pages, it will be redirected to > the CAS login page. So, what should I do to be sure my pages get indexed? > -- > You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [email protected] > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-user -- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-user
