By netentropy on

http://www.doshdosh.com/revenue-sharing-podcasts-for-blogs-odiogo/

I just noticed this site is using drupal. however if i type in www.doshdosh.com/node I see that I get his custom page not found page

I have the same path auto module he has yet my /node still appears

how to i set drupal to only have accessible links that I actually have on my site?

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justMatt’s picture

justMatt commented

I am affraid he is using WordPress, not Drupal

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ThatPerson commented

You could use the Global Redirect module at http://drupal.org/project/globalredirect. If you know PHP, you could also probably whip up something in your settings.php file that would redirect any incoming /node/ URLs to a not-found page.

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netentropy commented

I am trying to use global redirect with path auto and it doesn't seem to be working

But this is how most people get around this?

The thing is have sections of my site that i am working on that i don't want peopel to see, like showing videos

it all works well and is not indexed but if anyone recognizes this as a drupal site which is easy because of all the dang stylesheet and script includes in the header

then they can type /node and see all my nodes.....

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sepeck commented

They can see all your nodes that have the 'Promoted to front page' box checked.

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netentropy commented

Hmmm

I see what you are saying

I was told a while ago that if I used a URL alais that it would overide /node

however it doesn't it just changes the URL /node to whatever alais I see

So is there NO way to make /node not work.

I am using Global redirect and it does nothing for me

I thought if you gave something a alais then Global redirect would cause the old url not to work

i'm i wrong on this

please tell me exactly how to make /node not work at all

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vm commented

after setting the url alias, it seems to me you could use .htaccess to redirect to the path that takes nodes place, using a rewrite rule ?
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netentropy commented

yeah but should it be this hard....

i mean

i just dont get it

i set node alias for /node to /xxxxxxxxx

all it does if if i type /node, it takes me to /xxxxxxxx

I don' t want /node to exist, AT all, not accessible period.

i know it has to be done commonly with drupal users but i have tried many suggestions.

I guess i could make a custom view to /node and make it a page not found but what did people do about it before views

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vm commented

I don't think as many people as you think, are worried about others knowing what CMS is being used. I personally don't worry about it. There are too many ways to figure out what CMS is being used.

example, if i come to a site where I think Drupal is being used, to check quickly without viewing page source, i head to paths, like site.com/admin = do i get a login screen ?
site.com/user do i get a log in screen ? so on so forth. Many users leave their changelog.txt file in their install, thus you can pull site.com/CHANGELOG.txt and check as well.

you aren't going to get every possible path to be unrecognized as a Drupal install.

This of course is just my opinion.

now that I think about it, can you not create an error page of sorts and use the path module to direct to this page when the node path is called ?
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sepeck commented

I'm confused. How do you know it's done commonly? No site I know worries about it.

Perhaps getting creative with the htaccess may do it.

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide -|- Black Mountain

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
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netentropy commented

the problem is not people figuring out its drupal

the problem is that, i have nodes that shouldn't be seen, meaning that i have no menu link to them or any link anywhere to them

i have it set where only the admin can see the menu that links to them

now if i go to /node

i can see all of the nodes regardless of this.

that is why i want to get rid of it.

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vm commented

as sepeck stated earlier, if the nodes aren't promoted to the front page, the node path won't show them. (set the default in administer -> content types -> edit and uncheck the promote to front page checkbox, this will stop nodes being sent to the /node/ path)

If there are sections of your site you don't want users in ? why not set up a taxonomy called private, and use the taxonomy access control module ?

or something like the nodeaccess.module may also help ?
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