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Password proteced folders open for seach

Posted: 08 May 2019, 06:26
by InoculateIT
Hi there

I can't figured out if its a bug or I just do it in a wrong way?

I have password protected folders on my site, but pictures inside the folder can be found on a search by ie Google and also viewed?

Am I doing something wrong or is it just normal?

Re: Password proteced folders open for seach

Posted: 09 May 2019, 00:25
by mjau-mjau
Hi,

Just to be clear, "password protected page" is not strictly the same as "Google and nobody can ever see or access anything in this folder".  X3 protects the X3- page, which under normal circumstances means that nobody (including Google) can "find" the images. How Google is "finding" your images when it can't access the page that is listing them, I don't know ... Perhaps this folder was not protected earlier? Do you have a an image reference link so I can have a look? Having said that, X3 does not BLOCK access to FILES that are in password-protected folders ... That would require a server-side protection setup using .htaccess to block access.

On a related note, you could block images from being indexed by Google in the first place, from Settings > Advanced > "Prevent search engines from indexing image pages".