Smarty

mjenning · Smarty n00b Joined: 04 Nov 2012 Posts: 1

Hi,
I am seeing thousands of google crawl errors, each one is a compiled smarty file with a name like, %%FD^FDF^FDFCA620%%file.tpl.php

So what I think is happening is that google is crawling a compiled smarty file, but the name has changed by the next time google crawls the page.

Is it possible to remove the string prepended to the filename?

Any suggestions?

Many thanks

Mark

U.Tews · Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 4:12 pm Post subject:

Google should not at all crawl compiled or cached template files.

These folders should be excluded by the robot.txt file on the server.

cbj4074 · Smarty Regular Joined: 10 Nov 2011 Posts: 49

My humble opinion is that your Smarty template files should exist outside of the Web-server's document root altogether. There's no reason for your template files to be accessible via HTTP request.

douglassdavis · Smarty Junkie Joined: 21 Jan 2008 Posts: 541

when you say google crawl error, you mean you can search for your compiled templates in google and get results?

how is it even finding them I wonder? If you don't want to move your compiled templates to outside of doc root, then at least block files in that dir from being browsed and make sure you aren't allowing browsers to view your directory listings.

mohrt · Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 2:46 am Post subject:

even if compiled files were under the htdoc root, there should be no links to them, unless you allow directory indexes on the web server and have a link to that page. that said, it is a generally good idea to keep them out of htdocs, or deny direct access with "deny from all" rules in .htaccess or apache config.