Hi James,
I've put a one liner <?php header("Location: /index.php"); ?> index.php in
there.
I don't think it's needed, but just in case!
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Keeline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 2:37 AM
Subject: Re: [php-list] OT robots text
> --- Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I've had someone probing for "/cgi-bin/****" in my error log.
>> They got a 403 error as it's a protected directory, but I'd put it in my
>> "robots.txt" file, as most examples suggest.
>>
>> Should I take this out, as the robots file is available for anyone to read,
>> or is it needed?
>> Thanks.
>
> /cgi-bin is such a common directory name that a malicious user could attempt
> to
> read files from it whether it is in your robots.txt file or not.
>
> I recall hearing about a large company (Kodak.com?) which had noindex options
> on certain directories and when people looked at the file, they discovered
> that
> the directories contained sensitive and unprotected data.
>
> The purpose of the robots.txt file is to guide search engine spiders. The
> spiders should not even try to look into these directories. As you noted, on
> a
> well-configured system the original source code files will not be revealed.
>
> James
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