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Thanks for the replies guys. Okay, I read those documents on robots and I think I may have found the answer. But if I could, I would like to run it by you just to be sure. First I would make a file called robots.txt and put it in my root directory, so it would look something like this: http://www.davidcrockettscoins.com/robots.txt Then, the only stuff saved in the robots.txt would be the following: >User-agent: * Disallow: /forum/ Is this correct? Also, would that be enough to avoid indexing robots for that portion of my webspace? If so, that's a lot easier than I thought.

Hello: I'm not really sure where to post this, so I hope this doesn't cause any problems. Anyhow, I would like to put a forum on my webspace through TCH and only allow family and friends to join. My concern, however, is that search engine robots would find it because I've already submitted my main domain to several different search engines. You see, for something like this - I would prefer a certain level of privacy and not have problems with random people always trying to join. My brother recommended I try a subdomain that would redirect to the forum, but I'm not sure I even know how a subdomain works or even if it would avoid the search engine robots. So, my questions are the following: 1)Would a subdomain avoid search engine robots even after I've submitted my main domain? 2)Any ideas on what would be the best way of starting my own family forum? Well, I hope this all makes sense. Thanks in advance for any help.

I posted the same question in a different forum and I guess I'll post some of the answers I received just in case anybody else ever has similar questions: Anyhow, I feel a lot better about it now. Thanks everybody.

Hello: I recently made a flash application that dynamically loads photos from an XML that is actually created from a PHP page which pulls its information from a MySql database. I think the following tutorial explains how this can be done (more or less): Kirupa Tutorial Anyhow, my question: Is this very secure? I mean, the following code that requires my username and password kinda frightens me: >$host = "localhost"; $user = "root"; $pass = ""; $database = "test"; $linkID = mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass) or die("Could not connect to host."); I realize this host is really secure... but I'm not making it any easier for hackers by using this code, am I?

Propagated? Hmmm, I'm not sure I know what that means. However, I don't think I need the gurus to check it out. I just tried forwarding some emails to a gmail account and it works perfectly... I've always suspected bad things of Hotmail. Anyhow, I talked with my business partner and I think we'll be okay just using Horde mail through Cpanel (or the Squirrel one). Thanks anyways everybody!! PS - Hopefully, I will soon have all my inventory photographed and the site ready to go live. Is it okay to post a link to the site if I want to show it to everybody?

Hmmm... I am very perplexed here. I also set up forwarders for 2 different email accounts and neither of them seem to be forwarding anything. I checked my trash, spam, and every other folder in my hotmail account and the test emails don't seem to be arriving anywhere. Question: usually how long does cpanel take to forward something? Anyhow, I get the feeling I'm probably forgetting something very small, and hence the problem. I will run through the tutorials again later.

Hey everybody: I just set up my site on TCH and it's working great!! However, one small question: I noticed that if I send an email to MyName@domain.com (this isn't real, obviously) I never seem to get the emails. I went into Cpanel and changed the default email address to my traditional hotmail account, but still... nothing sent to my domain seems to get to me. What am I missing?

Oops. He he he! I kinda figured that out the hard way. Wow, I guess it really shows how much of a noob I am. Well, once I got squared away I downloaded the recommended ftp client as suggested in the welcome email and it worked great. Of course, I had to view a few of the tutorials before I got it all figured out. So, I've been working on my site all day and now I'm ready for a break. I'll be back soon - and I got a strange feeling that I might have some questions about setting up email to work with my site. Thanks again everybody!!

Okay. Now that I've tried using Cpanel to upload files - I think I see your points. My ZenCart site has a ton of files in it and I'm gonna need something that can upload in mass proportions. I will try IMHO. Thanks for the suggestions everybody!!

Okay. I'm a huge noobie here. I just got my welcome email from TCH and I have one question: Do I need to have an FTP client in order to upload my site to the server? I've used cpanel before with other hosts and they let me upload files directly through cpanel. Honestly, I've never had to download or use an ftp client that I know of. I'ld appreciate as much good info anybody can give me. Thanks!!