[carmichael1973]

Originally Posted by Dismounted

Search Google for a robots.txt "guide".

If it is a private site, why not just disable all guest viewing, or add a .htaccess/.htpasswd protection and send the username/password to all the employees?

I was actually thinking of something just like that. We create the user accounts and then send them their login info via email. It's been a few years since I've used VB and the code has changed alot. For the better that is.

Originally Posted by Jase2

You could add an authentication to the site, however, that would require everyone to know the username and password to access the site. You're best just closing the forums to guests, which means bots cannot index your content.

I've considered that option as well.

Originally Posted by Dismounted

You could even put the username/password combo on the description for the password prompt, that would stop bots too .

I'm also running VBPORTAL which is installed in my root directory. My forums is installed in ROOT/FORUMS. What I'd like to do is have an .htaccess/.htpaasword script run and require a VALID MEMBER login before displaying anything. If login fails redirect to a custom error page.

My propblem is I'm not familiar with the current VB code to do that. Then making it work on a non-vb page as well.

Basically, I need to establish a login verification that will be global to my site before displaying any requested pages.