joecav Posted July 31, 2003 Posted July 31, 2003 Can I have an unlinked web page on my web site that can be accessed by typing the url in directly? here's why...the web site is for work...I have waaay too much space available and would like to use some of it to post some family pics, etc. Obviously I don't want to have a direct link from the Index page...how would I do this...if at all? Thanks in advance! Quote
TCH-Sales Posted July 31, 2003 Posted July 31, 2003 Yes, you don't have to have everything linked up. Just upload the pics, or upload the pics and the page they are on and then you can tell somebody you wanted to show it to that they were at that exact address. Quote
joecav Posted July 31, 2003 Author Posted July 31, 2003 sweet...just so I am crystal clear on this...I would upload a page that is called ****/hidden which is not linked to the index page. Then just type in www.****/hidden and it will work right? Thanks for the knowledge! Quote
leezard Posted July 31, 2003 Posted July 31, 2003 yup thats correct, you can direct link to any file on your site. for instance lets say you wanted to be able to show someone just ONE picture.. upload it to your site in whatever folder you want (as long as it is in the public directory) then if you want to link directly to it you would use www.domainname.com/imagename.jpg if you wanted to make a whole page full of pics you could either make a folder that has its own index.htm file or you could make your page and instead of calling it index call it mypics.html, upload everything to your site then access it www.****/mypics.html Quote
joecav Posted July 31, 2003 Author Posted July 31, 2003 Well there you go. You guys never cease to amaze me with your helpful knowledge...Thanks! Quote
boxturt Posted July 31, 2003 Posted July 31, 2003 If you want to keep it a little more private (without having to password protect it) add this to your robots.txt file : User-agent: * Disallow: /hidden.html/ This will prevent the page from showing up even in respectable search engines. Quote
Digirunt Posted August 1, 2003 Posted August 1, 2003 And if you want to be really clever check out the web protect feature of control panel where you can password protect folders and add authorised users like windows. Top feature. . just another reason why Quote
idallen Posted August 1, 2003 Posted August 1, 2003 If you want to keep it a little more private (without having to password protect it) add this to your robots.txt file : User-agent: * Disallow: /hidden.html/ This will prevent the page from showing up even in respectable search engines. If there are no links to the hidden page, even the search engines can't find it. There is no need for the robots.txt block on files that have no links to them. If you were trying to prevent the indexing of a particular file, the trailing slash on the file name in your example may prevent the block from working. Remove the slash. Quote
boxturt Posted August 1, 2003 Posted August 1, 2003 arrgh! You are, of course right. I beg for mercy! I plead insanity even! My 20 year old moved back home this week after a one year absence. I haven't slept in dayyyyyyyyyyys! Need I say more? Quote
Guest steveoregon Posted August 1, 2003 Posted August 1, 2003 Can I have an unlinked web page on my web site that can be accessed by typing the url in directly? here's why...the web site is for work...I have waaay too much space available and would like to use some of it to post some family pics, etc. Obviously I don't want to have a direct link from the Index page...how would I do this...if at all? Thanks in advance! =============== I suspect what you want to do is more common than you realize. I used to do it a lot myself. A while back I had a website where I never used the main url for anything. I had two small differerent websites using a different url - each accessed by typing the url directly. No one person knew about the other. Anytime I needed some server space for a quick photo of something, I just created another unique url. Done all the time. Steve Quote
joecav Posted August 1, 2003 Author Posted August 1, 2003 You guys know your stuff..I'm learning more every day! Thanks! Quote
DConley Posted August 1, 2003 Posted August 1, 2003 You might also be interested in creating a sub domain to host your private material. For instance, you could have a sub called "private" and then to get to it you would type http://private.**** You could name it anything you wanted, but you get the idea! Quote
Lianna Posted August 3, 2003 Posted August 3, 2003 If there are no links to the hidden page, even the search engines can't find it. Maybe Scott can chime in here, but...I had my family geneology charts in a directory called /family on my space, but there was no link to or from my main site. Lo, there started appearing Google search hits to my family pages. Hmmmmm. Quote
idallen Posted August 5, 2003 Posted August 5, 2003 If there are no links to the hidden page, even the search engines can't find it. Maybe Scott can chime in here, but...I had my family geneology charts in a directory called /family on my space, but there was no link to or from my main site. Lo, there started appearing Google search hits to my family pages. Hmmmmm. Google can't find the page unless some link exists to it. That link doesn't have to be a link in *your* web space, it can be a link made by someone else. For example, you may have sent your link to some family member who mentioned it in some online chat with someone, and the chat was web-visible to Google. Or maybe someone in your family accidentally linked to your site while building their own site. All it takes is one link... Quote
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