Making Pages Private

[edytwinky]

I have certain mods like the VBay and the Yet Another Awards system added on my forums. The web address extensions are vbay.php and awards.php.

These appear on google searches.

Is there a way to make these pages private that you cannot view them unless you are logged in?

[SirFlash]

I've never used vBay or Yet Another Awards system, so this might not be useful, but it might help:

Access masks are used to regulate who can access what in vBulletin forums (you can configure access masks in your AdminCP -> Usergroups -> Forum Permissions). So you can have guests not allowed to view certain pages, while "Registered Members" can, after you configure it here.

I don't know if vBay / YAWS is part of the actual forum pages or if they're totally separate non-forum-page entities that these settings don't have access to, so i'm not sure if these settings would apply to making things visible only to registered members / whatever Usergroup you want, and not in Google searches.

If those settings don't help, try finding code that will make your pages check with vbulletin's usergroup permissions before loading. I don't know where you'll find this, so hopefully someone more knowledgeable can let you know if the above doesn't work out.

Sorry if this isn't helpful - Good luck!