Re: test.openeuphoria.org is open to the world
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Jan 16, 2013
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Why is the test/development site accessible to anyone?
To allow the entire world to take part in finding bugs in the existing website system - without risking the actual forum itself.
I have found the following post in the forum which is similar to my problem, but fails to resolve it. It does not seem to be a problem of sim link. http://test.openeuphoria.org/forum/110825.wc.
At the very least, it should have a robots.txt forbidding access, so it doesn't show up as the first hit on Google.
I guess this sounds reasonable. We have no other reason to hide the test forum from search engines like Google aside from this reason though.
Ideally, it should have been passworded;
That sounds easier. Obviously, the password would be public and well documented, so that anyone and everyone human could continue to access the test site.
the only way to do that now that there are a plethora of links to the development site would be to move the test site to, e.g., dev.openeuphoria.org, password that, and redirect test.openeuphoria.org/whatever to openeuphoria.org/whatever to preserve the validity of sites and search engines that now link to the wrong version.
Why would we want to bother with that? Who cares about the search engine validity regarding the test site?
