Search Bot Functionality

[Kellanved]

http://shcommunity.mickens.us
Try it as a guest, then try it as a bot. Guest have no access permissions, google bot can see everything[/quote]

That is a problem with the permission on that page; out of the box phpBB3 behaves differently.

[DocBoum]

I think this could be a converter problem. I upgraded from phpBB 2.0.22, and stumbled across the fact that Google et al. were able to access a forum that was accessible to registered users only on my old site. Somehow, the "Bots" group got read access from the converter run [technically, this is not completely false, since they're not browsing as guests - but as members of the bots-group. However I guess that for the vast majority, this behavior is not the desired one…]- and that's probably where most of the "the-bots-can-see-my-stuff"-problems come from.

Could someone confirm this? Is this still the case with the current converter? If so, should we file it to the bugtracker?

[Kellanved]

Yes, that problem existed in RC1 and has been fixed.