I am in the process of setting up my first website and wanted to start uploading my pages to a server soon. However, I wanted to test them on the server and make sure that everyone involved with the project was happy before any search engines crawl the page. My question is, if I don't submit the page to Google, Yahoo and other search engines do I need to worry about them crawling my page or do I need to setup an htcacess file to keep them at bay?
Even if you do not submit your site to search engines, they may start crawling your web site. Use robots.txt to disallow search engine spiders.