apache: password protect a cgi-bin app?
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I have a CGI application that takes action as soon as it's loaded. Unfortunately, google's bots found it and they are ignoring the norobots, so the actions are being triggered at random times. So I want to password protect the CGI code. I don't want the cgi-bin script to handle the passwording - I want Apache to do it before the script runs.
I can't see how to do this? Apache finds cgi-bin via a ScriptAlias. There's no Directory tag to set an AuthType on. Creating a directory for the script and handling it with <Directory> doesn't run it as a script.
Is there a trick to this?
apache-httpd password
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I have a CGI application that takes action as soon as it's loaded. Unfortunately, google's bots found it and they are ignoring the norobots, so the actions are being triggered at random times. So I want to password protect the CGI code. I don't want the cgi-bin script to handle the passwording - I want Apache to do it before the script runs.
I can't see how to do this? Apache finds cgi-bin via a ScriptAlias. There's no Directory tag to set an AuthType on. Creating a directory for the script and handling it with <Directory> doesn't run it as a script.
Is there a trick to this?
apache-httpd password
edited Sep 3 at 2:54
slm♦
239k65494665
asked Sep 3 at 1:58
user15001
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Um... dropping a downvote is fine, but how about some text explaining what the problem is? I'm not an apache guru. I don't know my way around apache2.conf and the comments in it don't explain how to do this.
– user15001
Sep 3 at 2:19
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You can use aLocationtag to do what you want. See here - serverfault.com/questions/127708/…
– slm♦
Sep 3 at 2:58
Google respects the robots.txt convention, so you might like to check your version of this file.
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Sep 3 at 8:10
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I have a CGI application that takes action as soon as it's loaded. Unfortunately, google's bots found it and they are ignoring the norobots, so the actions are being triggered at random times. So I want to password protect the CGI code. I don't want the cgi-bin script to handle the passwording - I want Apache to do it before the script runs.
I can't see how to do this? Apache finds cgi-bin via a ScriptAlias. There's no Directory tag to set an AuthType on. Creating a directory for the script and handling it with <Directory> doesn't run it as a script.
Is there a trick to this?
apache-httpd password
edited Sep 3 at 2:54
slm♦
239k65494665
asked Sep 3 at 1:58
user15001
363
I have a CGI application that takes action as soon as it's loaded. Unfortunately, google's bots found it and they are ignoring the norobots, so the actions are being triggered at random times. So I want to password protect the CGI code. I don't want the cgi-bin script to handle the passwording - I want Apache to do it before the script runs.
I can't see how to do this? Apache finds cgi-bin via a ScriptAlias. There's no Directory tag to set an AuthType on. Creating a directory for the script and handling it with <Directory> doesn't run it as a script.
Is there a trick to this?
apache-httpd password
apache-httpd password
edited Sep 3 at 2:54
slm♦
239k65494665
asked Sep 3 at 1:58
user15001
363
edited Sep 3 at 2:54
slm♦
239k65494665
asked Sep 3 at 1:58
user15001
363
edited Sep 3 at 2:54
slm♦
239k65494665
edited Sep 3 at 2:54
slm♦
239k65494665
edited Sep 3 at 2:54
slm♦
239k65494665
239k65494665
asked Sep 3 at 1:58
user15001
363
asked Sep 3 at 1:58
user15001
363
asked Sep 3 at 1:58
user15001
363
363
Um... dropping a downvote is fine, but how about some text explaining what the problem is? I'm not an apache guru. I don't know my way around apache2.conf and the comments in it don't explain how to do this.
– user15001
Sep 3 at 2:19
2
You can use aLocationtag to do what you want. See here - serverfault.com/questions/127708/…
– slm♦
Sep 3 at 2:58
Google respects the robots.txt convention, so you might like to check your version of this file.
– meuh
Sep 3 at 8:10
add a comment |Â
Um... dropping a downvote is fine, but how about some text explaining what the problem is? I'm not an apache guru. I don't know my way around apache2.conf and the comments in it don't explain how to do this.
– user15001
Sep 3 at 2:19
2
You can use aLocationtag to do what you want. See here - serverfault.com/questions/127708/…
– slm♦
Sep 3 at 2:58
Google respects the robots.txt convention, so you might like to check your version of this file.
– meuh
Sep 3 at 8:10
Um... dropping a downvote is fine, but how about some text explaining what the problem is? I'm not an apache guru. I don't know my way around apache2.conf and the comments in it don't explain how to do this.
– user15001
Sep 3 at 2:19
Um... dropping a downvote is fine, but how about some text explaining what the problem is? I'm not an apache guru. I don't know my way around apache2.conf and the comments in it don't explain how to do this.
– user15001
Sep 3 at 2:19
2
2
You can use a
Location tag to do what you want. See here - serverfault.com/questions/127708/…– slm♦
Sep 3 at 2:58
You can use a
Location tag to do what you want. See here - serverfault.com/questions/127708/…– slm♦
Sep 3 at 2:58
Google respects the robots.txt convention, so you might like to check your version of this file.
– meuh
Sep 3 at 8:10
Google respects the robots.txt convention, so you might like to check your version of this file.
– meuh
Sep 3 at 8:10
add a comment |Â
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<Location> turns out to be the way. It's just like <Directory> but you specify a url path not a filesystem path, so /cgi-bin/particularScript is the thing to use.
In my experience, norobots.txt gets ignored if Google finds your page via bookmarks in someone's Google account. It decides to crawl it regardless. I know that's how it found it because there are no public links to the page in question; it was a privately provided url and Google didn't visit it until after someone bookmarked it.
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1 Answer
1
active
oldest
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active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
up vote
0
down vote
accepted
<Location> turns out to be the way. It's just like <Directory> but you specify a url path not a filesystem path, so /cgi-bin/particularScript is the thing to use.
In my experience, norobots.txt gets ignored if Google finds your page via bookmarks in someone's Google account. It decides to crawl it regardless. I know that's how it found it because there are no public links to the page in question; it was a privately provided url and Google didn't visit it until after someone bookmarked it.
answered Sep 6 at 0:57
user15001
363
add a comment |Â
up vote
0
down vote
accepted
<Location> turns out to be the way. It's just like <Directory> but you specify a url path not a filesystem path, so /cgi-bin/particularScript is the thing to use.
In my experience, norobots.txt gets ignored if Google finds your page via bookmarks in someone's Google account. It decides to crawl it regardless. I know that's how it found it because there are no public links to the page in question; it was a privately provided url and Google didn't visit it until after someone bookmarked it.
answered Sep 6 at 0:57
user15001
363
add a comment |Â
up vote
0
down vote
accepted
up vote
0
down vote
accepted
<Location> turns out to be the way. It's just like <Directory> but you specify a url path not a filesystem path, so /cgi-bin/particularScript is the thing to use.
In my experience, norobots.txt gets ignored if Google finds your page via bookmarks in someone's Google account. It decides to crawl it regardless. I know that's how it found it because there are no public links to the page in question; it was a privately provided url and Google didn't visit it until after someone bookmarked it.
answered Sep 6 at 0:57
user15001
363
<Location> turns out to be the way. It's just like <Directory> but you specify a url path not a filesystem path, so /cgi-bin/particularScript is the thing to use.
In my experience, norobots.txt gets ignored if Google finds your page via bookmarks in someone's Google account. It decides to crawl it regardless. I know that's how it found it because there are no public links to the page in question; it was a privately provided url and Google didn't visit it until after someone bookmarked it.
answered Sep 6 at 0:57
user15001
363
answered Sep 6 at 0:57
user15001
363
answered Sep 6 at 0:57
user15001
363
answered Sep 6 at 0:57
user15001
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Um... dropping a downvote is fine, but how about some text explaining what the problem is? I'm not an apache guru. I don't know my way around apache2.conf and the comments in it don't explain how to do this.
– user15001
Sep 3 at 2:19
2
You can use a
Locationtag to do what you want. See here - serverfault.com/questions/127708/…– slm♦
Sep 3 at 2:58
Google respects the robots.txt convention, so you might like to check your version of this file.
– meuh
Sep 3 at 8:10