Re: https://viewvc.infrae.com/ password protected

On 27 May 2009, at 11:06, Marc Petitmermet wrote:

> dear all
>
> since yesterday https://viewvc.infrae.com/ is all of a sudden password
> protected. why?

Because bots were indexing the viewvc, and the processor was hitting  
100%. We first tried putting a robots.txt file in there (because we  
don't want all the old versions to be indexed anyway) but that wasn't  
possible with the viewvc setup. There's no 'root'.

The svn.infrae.com is not password protected and does get indexed.  
Sometimes we use the Goggle "site: svn.infrae.com" command which is  
effective.

Are there lots of people out there using viewvc who don't have svn  
access?

Kit


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