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How to make development site Noindex Nofollow, but production without

I have a joomla 3.3 development site and a production site. I'm doing all development in the development site and every time that the development get pushed to production, I need to make sure I change noindex,nofollow to index, follow.

Anyway I can keep development noindex,nofollow without changing production?

Solution

  • Use a conditional php code inside the template head php file.

    <?php
//if host is development show noindex
 $host = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']; 
 if($host == "development.com")
 {
     echo "<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, nofollow\">";
 }
?>