The GoogleBot Reset My Site!

[h.s777]

I set up PHP files to create many of the MySQL databases behind my website.Somehow, although I haven't linked them to anywhere and am the only one who knows about them, I received a visit from the GoogleBot to one of them, resetting my database of advertisers. I realized this when I saw the page indexed on Google later. So I thought it was a freak occurance and deleted the file.But then it happened again to the mail system - which luckily doesn't actually store the messages and could be recovered. So where could Google possibly be getting the URL from and do I have to put a meta noindex tag on all my configuration files?Bad GoogleBot! Down boy down!Do you have any sitemaps being automaticly generated ?Do any of theese pages use a template that might inadvertantly show Adsense ?Do you use Google Toolbar on the browser you're visiting theese pages from ?Does Google Desktop Search know about any devolopment areas on your PC ?I might have a Google bar. In that case, how can I set up pages without the risk of Googlebot visits?Send a basic authentication header, you know the password prompt, that should scare Googlebot away from that resource, & worst case scenario not let it do anything there.Alright how do I do that?Not sure if this will work for you or not, but the information looks accurate.http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/technical/soft ... -auth.htmlAlright looks easy enough. I was hoping for a solution that wouldn't involve extra coding but this could work.Maybe I can put all my configuration scripts in one file and it will run a different one depending on the username you enter.If Google can find it, you can be sure someone you really don't want finding it isn't going to be far behind.The credentials controlling the function sounds like a pretty good idea.Alright thanks everyone. I only plan to leave the scripts online for short-term but I always seem to forget to delete them. At least this way, there's no chance of people getting in.