Protect Plesk login page from search engine eyes

Question

Hi Folks,

I was wondering if would it be possible to protect the "https://www.DOMAIN.com:8443" URL from search engines listing perhaps using the htaccess to redirect the 8443 port from "DOMAIN" to elsewhere?

This is the VZPP Plesk - Login Login to Plesk. Please enter your login information. Username. Password. Interface Language. User Default, ENGLISH (United States), GERMAN (Germany) ... https://www.DOMAIN.com:8443/ -

Many Thanks.

Answer 1

Try to use (if I've understood your question right)

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow,noarchive"/>

And google about robots.txt... don't remember the syntax...

Answer 2

You can read about using User-Agent detection with mod_rewrite here, how to setup your robots.txt for Google, Yahoo!, and MSN/Live Search - however, this all assumes sane and cooperative bots. There's little that can be done to protect against agressive, 'black-hat' bots.