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#18559 Backend Protection

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Latest post by nicholas on Wednesday, 18 December 2013 02:00 CST

Tuesday, 17 December 2013 21:18 CST

timbreese
 Hi Nicholas,

You are my "go to person" for Joomla questions!

Recently someone alerted me that they found a church directory through Google search for a document stored in the backend of my test site:

http://fusw.org/joomla31/images/stories/pdfs/04_13_Directory.pdf

How was that searchable and how can I prevent it (with AdminTools)?

Would it be any different if it was at the root (which will happen soon)

Thanks!

Tim

Wednesday, 18 December 2013 02:00 CST

nicholas
The file is not stored in the back-end of the site. It is stored in the publicly accessible images directory. Anything stored there is public information. If you would block access to this directory, you would not be able to include any images on your site.

If you want to prevent search engines from indexing files in your images directory you have to edit the robots.txt file. Google "robots.txt" for more information.

Note: robots.txt is ignored if your site is in a subdirectory. This file is only respected when it's located in the domain's root. Perhaps this is why your images did get indexed.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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