Needing to edit robots.txt file - where is it?

Osama · July 11, 2019, 8:44pm

I’ve created a PR for this:

github.com/discourse/discourse

FEATURE: Allow customization of robots.txt (#7884)

master ← OsamaSayegh:customize-robots-txt

opened 08:42PM - 11 Jul 19 UTC

OsamaSayegh

+282 -7

This allows admins to customize/override the content of the robots.txt file at …/admin/customize/robots. That page is not linked to anywhere in the UI -- admins have to manually type the URL to access that page. Meta topic: https://meta.discourse.org/t/needing-to-edit-robots-txt-file-where-is-it/93879?u=osama Screenshots: ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/17474474/61083151-b5174800-a433-11e9-890e-283221046b2b.png) ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/17474474/61083312-16d7b200-a434-11e9-9cae-dc3a9982c049.png) @eviltrout does it make sense to prepend a comment to robots.txt that says something along the lines of "this robots.txt file has been customized at /admin/customize/robots" **if** the file is customized? It might help with figuring out why certain things are in the file and how to remove/change them?

Screenshots:

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Needing to edit robots.txt file - where is it?

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