Do Not Want My Development Copy Folder To Be Indexed By Search Engines

Can anyone tell me the best way to stop google and bing etc from indexing my development store file.

I am doing some upgrades and installing a new theme, but want to work on a development store before going live, but I do not want this folder to be indexed.

What is the best way to achieve this.

Thank you all in advance

Juanita

Dont allow / path with robot txt

Thank you

https://docs.cs-cart.com/latest/user_guide/look_and_feel/changing_attributes/store_closed.html

Hi eComLabs, just by closing the store you are stopping search engines ?

Kind Regards

Juanita

Hi eComLabs, just by closing the store you are stopping search engines ?

Kind Regards

Juanita

yes, but they may crawl when you have it open, but use the special url to access yourself to avoid this

Thank you so much, that will make life easier :-)

Kind Regards

Juanita

Hi eComLabs, just by closing the store you are stopping search engines ?

Sure, they will see only service messages

if store closed, site return 503 status, search engines accept only 200 status