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I need to block an entire Drupal 7 site from being indexed for a while. So, I think it is best to redirect everything to 404 instead of actually deleting all my files. How can I do that?

PS: using the following code on .htaccess does not seem to work.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^ - [R=404,L]

-- Update 03/04/2015 --
The server is nginx

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If you are just trying to keep it from being indexed, you can just add

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

To the top of your robots.txt

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  • This is one of a good option to use for being indexed, but I really need the 404. :(
    – CocoSkin
    Mar 4, 2015 at 13:32
  • since the nginx does not support .htaccess, I'm going to mark this as my answer. Ty @Patrick Ryan
    – CocoSkin
    Mar 4, 2015 at 14:33
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You'll need to remove the existing Drupal rewrites for the moment; with them left in the .th access this code won't work.

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  • I dont have anything in ".htaccess" beside those 2 lines of code.
    – CocoSkin
    Mar 2, 2015 at 22:08
  • I updated the question. The site is running on nginx, not sure does it really matter.
    – CocoSkin
    Mar 4, 2015 at 13:35
  • If the server is nginx .htaccess has no effect.
    – Alfred Armstrong
    Mar 4, 2015 at 13:40

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