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Posted December 16, 20213 yr 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.
December 16, 20213 yr Author @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, 20213 yr by Gabriel Torres
December 16, 20213 yr Community Expert Solution If you want to completely disable access to the store module, you could click the permissions button on the store module and remove access.
December 17, 20213 yr Author @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/.
December 20, 20213 yr Community Expert @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
December 20, 20213 yr 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, 20213 yr by SeNioR-
December 21, 20213 yr 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).