Hi, new user here that has just started with Couch, i am attempting to convert a site i have made for a family member into a couch enabled site so she can edit the content and upload images to the gallery etc...

So far things are working out just fine and the system is really easy to understand and use however i feel i have only just scratched the surface of what you can achieve with it.

I have two questions around securing the admin site and if the admin site should be restricted from search bots.

1. Is this still relevant for securing the admin site? - http://docs.couchcms.com/miscellaneous/ ... panel.html

2. Should i use robots.txt to avoid the couch folder being crawled by search bots? If i do this would it affect any SEO or have problems with images being searched?

Thanks

[trendoman]

1. Yes, this can be applied.

I see no practical reason for this and never used this option so far. Maybe it's time to try? I guess the rule of thumb here is to check access.log of your server periodically. Any suspicious activity would alert you and with a decent hosting and a small website it normally should never happen.

2. Some bots would anyway ignore robots.txt and will crawl just anything. Depending on the rules in htaccess you can restrict any resources within /couch folder and below, or just /couch folder. And there is option to move /uploads outside of /couch/uploads and therefore no seo problems with images.