# Robots.txt to completely block all indexing of private site

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/robots-txt-to-completely-block-all-indexing-of-private-site/143429>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [March 5, 2020, 5:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/robots-txt-to-completely-block-all-indexing-of-private-site/143429 "2020-03-05T17:28:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 8:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/robots-txt-to-completely-block-all-indexing-of-private-site/143429/4 "2020-03-06T08:17:16Z")

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Also, make sure you have the `login required` setting turned on by rerunning the wizard at [yoursite.com](http://discourse.yoursite.com/wizard) . That will also shut out search engines.

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