Indexing Password Protected Content

how can i get subscrpition content index - apache trick?

[koseo]

Hi, I have a subscrption site with 5,000+ pages which i'd like google to index but at the same time prevent unregistered users of the website from seeing any of the subscription content.

I can see WebmasterWorld are doing this using some type of cookie based authentication but does anyone know if they are doing anything special with apache?

Thanks in advance

Matt, UK

[jdMorgan]

The answer depends on how you currently do authentication/authorization.

If you are using Apache mod_auth with mod_access, then see the "Satisfy" directive in Apache core. You can set "Satisfy any" and then "Allow from" search engine IP addresses or hostnames, or alternately set an envar using mod_setenvif based on the user-agent name (e.g. Googlebot), and "Allow from" that envar.

If you're using a script for doing auth, then you'll need to add the IP/hostname/useragent sensing to that script.

Jim