# Making a members area private along with documents in it

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**Created:** [August 25, 2020, 5:52pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/making-a-members-area-private-along-with-documents-in-it/34453 "2020-08-25T17:52:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![manofdogz](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/manofdogz/32/26314_2.png) [@manofdogz](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/manofdogz)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 5:52pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/making-a-members-area-private-along-with-documents-in-it/34453/1 "2020-08-25T17:52:50Z")

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Some time ago I created a members page for a client, secured it with individual passwords and set the robots to not index and not follow links.

In this page are multiple documents (both PDF and Word format).

I also added **Options -Indexes** to the .htaccess file to disable directory browsing

I now discover that Google has indexed all of these documents and anyone searching for ‘my client name, pdfs’ can easily download them all. It’s not a security issue, but the documents are for paid up members and not Jo Public.

So what do I do to resolve this? I have added an x-robots-tag to .htaccess but this presumably won’t get rid of the links already in existence. Any help gratefully received.

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**Author:** ![TemplateRepo](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/templaterepo/32/17547_2.png) [@TemplateRepo](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/TemplateRepo)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 5:55pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/making-a-members-area-private-along-with-documents-in-it/34453/2 "2020-08-25T17:55:48Z")

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Change the URL?

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**Author:** ![manofdogz](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/manofdogz/32/26314_2.png) [@manofdogz](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/manofdogz)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 6:09pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/making-a-members-area-private-along-with-documents-in-it/34453/3 "2020-08-25T18:09:33Z")

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I guess - and then request google removes content. I was thinking of this as the resources folder has capitalised first letters i.e. resources/Members-Area-Documents. If I de-capitalised these that should work. Would I have to redo the document links in the members area? Not such a big deal but there’re a lot of them!

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**Author:** ![system](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/system/32/25301_2.png) [@system](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2020, 4:09am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/making-a-members-area-private-along-with-documents-in-it/34453/4 "2020-09-25T04:09:39Z")

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