I am building a replacement site for a customers existing site. To test the replacement site on mobile devices, I loaded it to a "companyname.coffeecup.com" address in S-Drive. It works great but since the company already has an existing site I want to make sure someone won't stumble upon the replacement through a search engine return on the company name while I am building and testing it. Is there an option, like on Wordpress to make the .coffeecup.com address invisible to search engines?

Obviously in the future I will just make up a dummy name for a .coffeecup.com site and always use that one for testing sites. Just looking for a fix on this one since I can't change the name now.

This usually works.


If you want to do a little less you can create a robots.txt file and put this in it. Upload it to the root of your site.


The "User-agent: *" means this section applies to all robots. The "Disallow: /" tells the robot that it should not visit any pages on the site.

Thanks Eric. I think that will work for now, my next problem is what to do once I load the new site to their existing company domain name/hosting. Can I get rid of the "companyname.coffeecup.com" somehow or will that address just always be out there to come up as a blank page in search engines?

That only appears because of where you publishing the site for testing. Once you upload to your actual host everything will appear correctly.

So even thought the companyname.coffeecup.com will still remain in my s-drive, so long as there is nothing there it won't come up under search results for the company? Sorry to be difficult, just an s-drive newbie

Or you could put in a support ticket, and ask CC to change the subdomain for you.

I used my initials and numbers for mine, no chance that will ever come up and look like your client