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Ralph Weber
Ralph Weber Jul 21 '16
Hi there,


I have been setting up a site with Oxwall over the last couple of days, and I love it!


The community I'm trying to set up has to be invite only and blocked off from everything as much as possible. Therefore, I I have disabled the automatic joining mechanism/registration process using the admin menu. So far, so good.



Now, since I am the admin (and I guess I have slightly different pages than my users), I cannot delete my own account through the profile settings, logically.


My question is this: do my users have the ability to disable/delete their own account? I think it is very important for users to be in control of their own accounts, so that they can leave at any time without requiring my to delete their account manually.


Did I miss something in the settings (or maybe I can't see it since I am running the admin account) or where would the users find the button to delete their account?


Also, does an appropriately configged robots.txt keep bots from indexing everything? It works with my Koken site but I'm not entirely sure about Oxwall.


Thanks in advance,

Ralph

The Forum post is edited by Ralph Weber Jul 21 '16
dave Leader
dave Jul 21 '16
yes they can delete it, its on the very bottom of the page on their profile edit page.  And a robots txt file can always help.   Also you might want to change some of the default text such as welcome, just another oxwall site, and also email text such as invite and welcome letter and dear...   Bots pick up on all those words.  Someone probably knows you have an oxwall site or any other open source software very soon after install. 


I heard one story along time ago when wordpress was new that someone tried to hack their site and bots were already knocking at the door within 1 hour of installing it lol..  Them bots and bad guys.... what would we do without them...  be happy i guess :)

The Forum post is edited by dave Jul 21 '16
Ralph Weber
Ralph Weber Jul 22 '16
Ah good, thanks, I will ask one of my users to confirm that! :)


Ha, indeed, those bots are horrible ;) I will put a robots.txt in place, but apart from that, since the entire site is cut off from the outside and bots crawl links, they should actually never even get access to any content, right? I mean that should keep them off my lawn as well, or am I wrong with this assumption?


Good tip with changing the default texts, already on it! :)


Many thanks for your reply! :)

dave Leader
dave Jul 22 '16
I see you enjoyed grande torino as well... (get off my lawn lol) 


Yes if you deny the crawlers via robots txt file then that should take care of most of them. But many of the "non standard" bots dont even read the robots file so there may be some other htaccess things you can do.  


check this out 


http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10735766/block-all-bots-crawlers-spiders-for-a-special-directory-with-htaccess





dave Leader
dave Jul 22 '16
Thanks Chris :)  
Ralph Weber
Ralph Weber Jul 23 '16
That's awesome, thank you! :D