Robots.txt Question

Hello

On my site, I have a printable version of each article at:

mysite.com/articlename/print

To get these print views not viewed by search engines (to prevent duplicate content penalty), my robots.txt file looks like this:

User-agent: *
Disallow:/*/print/

Also, I'm thinking of adding my admin directory to my robots.txt file, and i had a question. Couldn't people who want to hack your site find all the important directories by just looking at the robots.txt file? Should I add my admin directory to the robots file or not?

 

If you add,

IndexIgnore *


to your .htaccess, then people won;t see the files in the directories

 

I just add that one line?

Another question, how can I see the files if I add that line?

Thanks!

 

You will see the files in your ftp because your logged in and have privilidgesm however if someone without tries to browse they won't/ shouldn't see anything

 

i dont think that people can use use your print urls to hack.

google and big the other big boys are suggesting to use robots.txt

 

Can you confirm that I robots.txt-ed my print files?

 

User-agent: *
Disallow:/*/print/
I think this will not work

To disallow the print directory and it's subdirectory you need to put like
User-agent: *
Disallow: /print/

That's it.

 

I'm agree with "web_mehul "

 

User-agent: *
Disallow:/*/print/
I think this will not work

To disallow the print directory and it's subdirectory you need to put like
User-agent: *
Disallow: /print/

Ah, but does this work for /private/print too? As I think that's what he needs ( I might be wrong though )

 

If print is into a root directory than he has to give /print/ only he need not to give /private/print/