Stop Google from Indexing our server /~user

Steini Petur

• October 23, 2017 13:09

I am aware this How to stop google indexing of /~ is 1 year old, I still would like to understand, where did he place the robots.txt, did he put it in his /home/user/? or did he put it in the root directory for WHM/cPanel? It would help me a lot if I could leave the temporary URL possibility open yet block google from indexing our server because it was because of that we closed it, due to google finding malware in maybe 1 home user while other home user suffered as Google detected this as "1 website" and child directories.

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  Steini Petur

  • October 23, 2017 18:17

  Nevermind, but it could come in handy for someone else so the file you are looking for is /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf The entry you are looking for is ServerName 82.221.129.19 ServerAlias DocumentRoot /var/www/html ..... You would most likely place the robots.txt with the disallow to prevent google from snooping in that folder, so the server.hostname/~user won't be searched allowing you to keep the Temporary URL open :)

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  cPanelMichael

  • October 24, 2017 20:13

  Hello, I'm glad to see you were able to find the answer to your question. Thank you for updating us with the outcome.

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