Question

I have a custom designed script for my website, and /admin/ shows up in google search. How can i make /admin/ not visible and knowable to others. At least on google or searchable?

Answer 1

What I do is return a 404 not found unless the user is already logged in. Put the login url above /admin.

That combined with robots.txt should take care of it.

However, using robots.txt will alert those with ill-intent (hackers, etc) that you have a url to be attacked. I never put admin dashboards in robots.txt – I simply deny they exist.

<?php

$loggedIn = false; // replace with how you track logged in status
if ( ! $loggedIn )
{
    header( 'HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found' );
    echo '<h1>404 - Not Found</h1>';
    exit();
}