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[tech] robots.txt format

Sean Conner sean at conman.org

Wed Jan 27 10:56:04 GMT 2021

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It was thus said that the Great René Wagner once stated:

Hi,
simple question:
is the following robots.txt format valid in a form that the "disallow" is applied to all User-agents mentioned before?
---
User-agent: researcher
User-agent: indexer
User-agent: archiver
Disallow: about
---

That will work, but you need to add a leading '/' to the Disallow line:

Disallow: /about

That will match any request starting with '/about', like '/about','/aboutthis', '/about/that', etc.

or do i need to be more chatty?
---
User-agent: researcher
Disallow: about
User-agent: indexer
Disallow: about
User-agent: archiver
Disallow: about
---

That will work too (same thing about the Disallow: line though). You canread more about it at <http://www.robotstxt.org/>.

-spc