I tried to disallow in the robots.txt file (sitting under htdocs) the
swishspider, but it didn't work?
 
I used 
 
User-agent: swishspider
Disallow: /some/directory/subdirectory
 
Can you explain what variables might be affecting this? 
 
I had swish-e configured so that it would only go to this one main
directory...which is a password protected (.htacess) directory. The
structure for swish-e to index is htdocs/some_protected_directory/ and it
does index this directory. Then I thought I wanted to keep it out of a
subdirectory there, so I did the disallow in the robots.txt  Since this did
not work, I am now questioning all the directories being protected by the
robots.txt and moreover I am trying to figure out how to keep the contents
of the index from displaying until first the requestor has entered a
password.???

Suzanne Hallam
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