apeman

Great minds

I've literally just solved the exact same problem for a musician I'm making a site for: http://musicplayer.sourceforge.net/ Easy as anything works like a dream

lol... sorry - disregard this post. My hosting IS running apache ... so it's all already done (If an admin wants to delete this thread in the name of tidyness... please be my guest!)

I keep seeing "Index of" directory type listings - like this one here: http://www.thecoolestthingever.com/simon/books/ I've done a bit of googling and I keep finding references to apache web servers... is that what I'm looking for? and how does something like that work for someone like myself who buys hosting from a major provider? (but I do have the clever stuff - so installing features etc is possible to a degree) Something like this would be really useful for part of my site... but I don't know where to start pushing my rather primitive head round it What is this ape to do?

Ah - gotcha.. Will have to have a look. Thanks eggman!

The thing is, I still want the pages in that subdomain to be indexed - even if I don't want the fact that they are actually in that subdomain to be. Surely blocking spiders from looking at mateyboy.mysite.co.uk by changing the robots.txt in that folder will also block them from mateyboy.com which is the same folder under a different name? Much as I hate mateyboy... his site still needs to be indexed - if no one can find it he'll give up and stop chipping in for the space

Hmm.. ok Thanks for the replies. My hosting runs out in April, so I've decided to muck about with it - Have mysite.co.uk as just a url and have my files hosted along with mateyboys (and a couple of other mates) on subdomains_of.anothersite.net.. I know what you're saying DNS wise it will be all a bit of a null point, but it does get my professional site name out of mateyboy's url... which can't be a bad thing Thanks

I've read some posts and searched around a bit and it seems that this HAS been covered before, so apologies for not understanding existing answers, I'm afraid I need it spelling out I have a site (for the sake of argument): mysite.co.uk I also host a mate's site his files are in: mysite.co.uk/mateyboy He gets the subdomain: mateyboy.mysite.co.uk He also buys the name: mateyboy.net My problem is this: an employer looking for me googles mysite and top of the list is mateyboy.mysite.co.uk How do I hide mateyboy.mysite.co.uk and mysite.co.uk/mateyboy from people looking for mysite? I hope I've explained what's happening here, I'm afraid my vocabulary for describing this side of things is woefully limited - and may be the reason I am totally unable to find any answers. Any assistance, even for handy words to plug into the search engine would be much appreciated. Thanks !