Module: Forum Lockdown

If you lock the forum there is no reason for Google to crawl, they keep their own cache.
(The whole idea does not make sense, so maybe I am missing something.) If you make it read only Google will check for changes periodically.

Google uses a range of ips. Google will tell you what ranges they use for their bots. You can use a .access file to allow / deny access to your forum.

What about the other search engines?

I only allow google to crawl....then how do i create .htaccess?

Creating an .htaccess will not help you, since that will actively block the rest of the world that is not Google from your forums.

What's your idea behind this all? Why lock it down, while at the same time allowing Google to crawl, cache and publish the contents?

Regardless the idea, allowing for such setup would require modification to the module, to authorize Google from there for accessing the forums. It is not a built-in feature, nor can you fix this from outside the module.

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Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
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