[mythtv-users] Google ate my recordings

[Tom Lichti]

Carl Fongheiser wrote:
> On 10/24/06, *Glenn Chubak* <glenn at saskatoon.com 
> <mailto:glenn at saskatoon.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     I would have thought that mythweb "Are you sure?" dialogs would have
>     stopped
>     the googlebot but it doesn't seem so.  If anyone is interested I can
>     post the
>     access logs from apache.
> 
>  
> Those dialogs only happen if the browser is Javascript enabled.  
> Needless to say, the robots don't execute the Javascript code. For the 
> future, you'll probably want to password-protect MythWeb.  It's also a 
> good idea to put a robots.txt file at the top level of your web server's 
> document tree.  For details, look here: 
> http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/robots.html
> 
> Finally, I strongly recommend not having your MythWeb installation 
> exposed directly to the Internet.  That invites all kinds of trouble.
> 
> Carl Fongheiser

A slightly better method (aside from password protecting), although not 
foolproof, is to make  the directory hidden by prefacing it with a 
period, i.e. .mythweb instead of mythweb, and not linking it anywhere. I 
have been running it like that for years and never lost a recording to 
bots. My path is NOT .mythweb, btw, so don't bother looking... :)

Tom