Global nofollow to make wiki private

Global nofollow to make wiki private

Posted by: leejkennedyDH
Posted on: 2009-04-14 01:04:00

Hi

I'm intending to use the mediawiki as a private wiki and wondered if its possible to set a global _nofollow_ so that none of the pages on my wiki are indexed by search engines. i know it's possible to do this per page, but i'd rather not have to remember to add the text each time...

Thanks

Re: Global nofollow to make wiki private

Posted by: sXi
Posted on: 2009-04-14 05:16:00

Implement a robots.txt file.

http://www.robotstxt.org/




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Re: Global nofollow to make wiki private

Posted by: leejkennedyDH
Posted on: 2009-04-14 07:00:00

Thanks... but there doesn't seem to be any way to implement this on the DreamHost Apps admin page. i'm sure it would be possible if i had full (read 'paid for') hosting. Sorry :-) i should have been more specific with the question

Does the dreamhost apps team have any idea if this is, or will, be possible in the future?

Thanks

Re: Global nofollow to make wiki private

Posted by: sXi
Posted on: 2009-04-14 07:40:00

In reply to:

i should have been more specific with the question


My bad. I neglected to look at which board I was in. Sorry about that.

With DreamHost Apps it's a case of WYSIWYG. But hey, it's free! smile




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Re: Global nofollow to make wiki private: resolved

Posted by: leejkennedyDH
Posted on: 2009-04-14 15:52:00

I managed to find this on the mediawiki help pages:

'Note: If anonymous users can't view your page, neither can search engines. Your site will not be indexed on Google.'

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access#1.5_upwards

so i should be all good :-)

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