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Covering a site's url


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I face a strange problem.

I have a site up and running for many years.

From time to time there are problems that I want other people's help to solve them.

What seem to be huge problem for me maybe a silly problem for other persons!

My problem is that I want people to see my site, in order to see the problem with their own eyes and be able to help me, but I want the whole process to be made without giving my site's url.

Why doing it this way?

Because in the past, I asked several questions about web related matters in many forums, and sometime I found out that google was not my friend but my enemy!

Every question I asked about my site, was there in search results pages, and everybody could see what I am planning, what are the weak point of my site etc!!!

Everybody that searched about my site in a way or another, could see -with no reason-all my problems, my tasks, all the thoughts I shared with others in forums in order to get their advice.

So, there is a need to give to some people the access they need to see my site, but doing this without give the url in public.

What solution do you suggest?

It should be a straight process, otherwise nobody would ever help me.

In any case, there is always a danger somebody post the url in a forum, without thinking about my concerns. And in this case the problem is that I cannot edit the posts of others?

In the past I was asking desperately administrators do this task for me but with no success.

I hope there is a solution for my strange problem.

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you could use google pages to host just an example or just dropbox the files for them to look at rather than showing the hosted files running in the server? I guess that is the only thing i can come up with other than useing like 000webhost and host a test site with your problems on it and then once you are done with it you can host it on your proper domain.

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Develop on a different server to your production code!

It could help but it is not so easy for me. I am not a full time web designer, it is too much for the whole project.

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That won't help get rid of forum post search results.

I didn't read his whole post, it was pretty long... I just read he had problems with search engines picking up pages he didn't want people to see

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you could use google pages to host just an example or just dropbox the files for them to look at rather than showing the hosted files running in the server? I guess that is the only thing i can come up with other than useing like 000webhost and host a test site with your problems on it and then once you are done with it you can host it on your proper domain.

Is it so easy?

I think not. The page is not static, it is dynamic, so there is no 'live' preview of the problematic page because I cannot upload the database. Am I wrong?

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Maybe use a URL shortener? Like bit.ly or tinyurl?

Do you suppose that this would be a nice solution hoping that nobody could ever post the real url to the forum?

I think these shorteners make half of the task, helping me to avoid posting the real url.

When you click on a shortened url, then you see the real url. There is the fear of somebody post the real url accidentally.

I keep this suggestion in mind, surely helps a little. Of course it is not the total solution.

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What's your URL?

I hope this is a joke!

I would have not any problem giving it to anybody here but the real problem is that google will keep these posts forever to everyone! All my thoughts and problems about my site will be forever exposed!

So here we are, discussing about how avoid posting the real url and how to get helped without giving people the real url(even with url shorteners)

yeah i think the url shortener route is the best, find one that lets you remove the link when your done.

or make your own :p

I can't understand what do you mean. Is there shoreners that let you remove the link? When the redirection will take place, don't you see the real url after all?

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I can't understand what do you mean. Is there shoreners that let you remove the link? When the redirection will take place, don't you see the real url after all?

He means you could remove the shortened url after use so it no longer pointed to your web site. There's no way to direct people to your site without revealing the url.

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Ok, I understand.

Do you think that it would be a good idea to ask politely in the topic that I 'll start, everybody to refer to my site with the shortened url, or this could make somebody to think about intentionally reveal it?

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If you are that paranoid about the URL, then go to a free host (000webhost.com for example) and utilize their services temporarily. There no real way to mask your URL at all. So continually asking when people have given you other ways to prevent Google from indexing your site AND indexing the URL on forums.. isn't going to do anything.

Are you just not wanting to show off the URL because it's a client of yours? If it's your own domain, I don't get why you'd be scared to link it up to the public. If the domain is a PUBLIC domain, it makes no sense to go above and beyond to ensure it's never seen.

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Are you just not wanting to show off the URL because it's a client of yours? If it's your own domain, I don't get why you'd be scared to link it up to the public. If the domain is a PUBLIC domain, it makes no sense to go above and beyond to ensure it's never seen.

It looks to me like he doesn't want people searching his site name to see that he's been asking for help on it if I understand things properly.

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It looks to me like he doesn't want people searching his site name to see that he's been asking for help on it if I understand things properly.

I know that's probably his main reason.. Which is kinda lame to be scared to show that you had to ask for some help. But that's just me.

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Is it really even necessary to disclose your domain when asking for help? If you just describe individual problems ("Why won't this script work?") then you can paste the script but nobody will know where it comes from.

Otherwise, you can hire a programmer to do it for you. A programmer that you hire will not disclose the weaknesses of your website for the world to see.

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It looks to me like he doesn't want people searching his site name to see that he's been asking for help on it if I understand things properly.

This is the reason.

Does the free host (000webhost.com for example) allow to upload a database or just static pages?

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This is the reason.

Does the free host (000webhost.com for example) allow to upload a database or just static pages?

How big of a site and what database type/size? I might be able to host a test copy for you, and your URL would be http://ipaddress/~username/

I run a small hosting company and account info/setup/management is all automated...

Let me know in PM.

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Does the free host (000webhost.com for example) allow to upload a database or just static pages?

Are you using PHP? phpnet.us is a decent free host.

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How big of a site and what database type/size? I might be able to host a test copy for you, and your URL would be http://ipaddress/~username/

I run a small hosting company and account info/setup/management is all automated...

Let me know in PM.

Small website, small database in mysql.

If I do decide it I 'll let you know. Thanks for the offer.

Are you using PHP? phpnet.us is a decent free host.

Yes, it is about php pages.I didn't know about phpnet.us. I suppose they offer mysql uploading as well.

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