How to disable access to /store/?

[Gabriel Torres]

Hi,

Today I found out using Google that the /store/ URL is active in our install, even though we don't use it, as we only have /subscriptions/:

https://www.clubedohardware.com.br/store/

https://www.clubedohardware.com.br/subscriptions/

How could we disable acess to /store or redirect it to /subscriptions?

BTW, why is this URL accessible if we don't have any products? Wouldn't this be something to be improved in the software?

Thanks.

[Daniel F]

You could change the default module for the store 

[Gabriel Torres]

@Daniel F Did that, cleared the caches, but it didn't work: it is still opening the store instead of the subscriptions.

Edited December 17, 2021 by Gabriel Torres

[Jim M]

If you want to completely disable access to the store module, you could click the permissions button on the store module and remove access.

[Gabriel Torres]

@Jim M That did the trick, but it is weird how the solution proposed by Daniel F, above, somehow didn't work for me. It would be best to redirect /store/ to /subscriptions/.

[Marc Stridgen]

On 12/17/2021 at 3:49 PM, Gabriel Torres said:

@Jim M That did the trick, but it is weird how the solution proposed by Daniel F, above, somehow didn't work for me. It would be best to redirect /store/ to /subscriptions/.

It wouldnt do that if the store module itself is still active

[SeNioR-]

The question is a bit off topic, but related. Is it worth adding the extra lines

Disallow: /store/
Disallow: /clients/
Disallow: /settings/
Disallow: /messenger/

to robots.txt?

For the messenger page, google somehow indexed the page.

 

Edited December 20, 2021 by SeNioR-

[Mark H]

Google usually doesn't honor robots.txt exclusions like those, but you can disallow those directories in..... hmm... either your Analytics or Webmaster Tools interface (I forget which one has that feature).

[Gabriel Torres]

Will take a look into that, thanks.