Hey!

Lets say I have a password protected area using PHP...

Can a search engine spider through the password protected pages or will it be unable to do so becuase it isn't logged in?

I've heard search engine spiders view what we view...
Thanks

Nope.

Basically, whatever happens to a user who is not logged in and clicks the link will happen to the spider.

If your "secure" area can be gotten to by search engines, it can also be very easily gotten to by hackers.

Time to redesign the application.

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One thing I forgot to mention is that a Search Engine will not spider a website/page if it is not submitted to the Search Engine or linked to.

If you don't want Search Engine indexing certain pages on your website you should use robots.txt.

However, anyone can view this file (e.g. www.yourdomain.com/robots.txt), so it won't stop hackers from finding your hidden files/folders. As long as they are password protected it will be fine

If your website control panel (e.g: CPanel) has its own password protection system(CPanel uses .htaccess), it might be a better idea to use it as it will be even more secure.

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Thanks champ

No problem. Always happy to help

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