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Old 06-08-2011, 11:33 AM
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Default [SOLVED] prevent google from indexing server
Has anyone done the 'robots.txt' way of preventing google from indexing links and pages on a ZCS server? I am trying to figure out a way to prevent this. The closest i could get on this topic is this thread post [SOLVED] robots.txt?
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Old 06-10-2011, 08:41 AM
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You need to set the domain attribute 'zimbraMailKeepOutWebCrawlers' to TRUE, i.e.
zmprov ms zimbra.example.com zimbraMailKeepOutWebCrawlers TRUE
Anything listed in
/opt/zimbra/conf/robots.txt
will be appended to the robots.txt file that crawlers see.
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Old 06-11-2011, 01:59 AM
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You need to set the domain attribute 'zimbraMailKeepOutWebCrawlers' to TRUE, i.e.
zmprov ms zimbra.example.com zimbraMailKeepOutWebCrawlers TRUE
Anything listed in
/opt/zimbra/conf/robots.txt
will be appended to the robots.txt file that crawlers see.
Thanks lindsey for the reply , but I read this attribute is from 7.0.1 onwards so I guess I am not lucky with that. ZCS 7.0.1 Is Live!

Any other way I can get this done? Rich Graves says in the first thread that,

"You can add <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW"> to the <head> section of /opt/zimbra/jetty/webapps/zimbra/public/login.jsp; zmmailboxd stop; flush the /opt/zimbra/jetty/work/zimbra/jsp/org/apache/jsp/public_/ directory; zmmailboxd start"

Will this help to prevent ANY file from getting indexed by Google?
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Old 06-13-2011, 05:49 AM
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Dang. It's never that easy, is it?

Unfortunately, that change that you list will only affect the root file. If a spider hits a page at anything but the root level they won't see the META tag and will happily index away.
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Old 06-13-2011, 06:44 AM
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Dang. It's never that easy, is it?
Doh .. yeah right and these days getting someone to reply here is not easy too .. desperate times!

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Unfortunately, that change that you list will only affect the root file. If a spider hits a page at anything but the root level they won't see the META tag and will happily index away.
Okay you mean that will do just the login page huh? I need to keep away one user's calendar from showing up in google search.

hey thanks again!
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Old 06-24-2011, 11:56 PM
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Zimbra has this feature by default since 6.0.11. A file 'robots.txt' will be placed in /opt/zimbra/jetty/webapps/zimbra/ directory of mailbox server with this content.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

I had to do it manually on my 6.0.10. Placed the file /opt/zimbra/jetty/webapps/zimbra/robots.txt with ownership zimbra:zimbra on mailstore servers. Mailbox should be restarted after that with 'zmmailboxdctl restart'.
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Old 06-27-2011, 03:05 AM
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Any thoughts on how long it will take to do its thing? Its been 5 days and I still see the results. Perhaps displaying from cache?
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Old 06-27-2011, 07:12 AM
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Okay, It will be like this till google crawlers do the next lookup. Any details of crawling should be in jetty logs.
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