Source.php URLs

Hey,

For some reason, Google is indexing some pages on our Omeka Classic site that look like: Log In · Notable Kentucky African Americans Database These URLs bring up a login page. I’m noticing that these URLs can be constructed on other Omeka Classic sites as well. What is the purpose of these URLs and can they be suppressed in some way?

Thx!

–Eric

These URLs aren’t coming from Omeka; we don’t have anything that looks like this. Generally Omeka URLs don’t have “.php” in them ever. Do you maybe have links floating around somewhere to an old version of your site that ran on different software?

Basically a quirk of the authentication system is making the “log in” screen show up here and that’s what’s making the pages get indexed. I’m not sure how easy it would be for us to do anything about that on our end. For your site you could block these in your .htaccess:

RewriteRule ^items/source\.php . [R=404,L]

Returning 404 for these should make Google eventually drop them from the index.