# Pete, Feb 2005 - added blocking of various bots # Paul, Jan 2009 - fixes as suggested by validate tool. # Pete, May 2009 - removed googlebot as it is murdeing us on bandwidth. # # Useful URL to validate this: # http://tool.motoricerca.info/robots-checker.phtml # Notes pgb: # # Each record consists of multiple lines # # blank lines separate records # # a record consts of one or more user-agent lines, followed # by one or more dissallow lines - no blank lines within a record. # # best to have the 'User-agent: *' block at the end # Allow ok search engines #User-agent: Googlebot User-agent: ia_archiver User-agent: ia_archiver-web.archive.org # Disallow all twiki cgis except view (nb only when used with no query string) Disallow: /twiki/bin/rdiff Disallow: /twiki/bin/attach Disallow: /twiki/bin/changes Disallow: /twiki/bin/configure Disallow: /twiki/bin/edit Disallow: /twiki/bin/login Disallow: /twiki/bin/logon Disallow: /twiki/bin/logos Disallow: /twiki/bin/manage Disallow: /twiki/bin/oops Disallow: /twiki/bin/passwd Disallow: /twiki/bin/preview Disallow: /twiki/bin/rdiff Disallow: /twiki/bin/rdiffauth Disallow: /twiki/bin/register Disallow: /twiki/bin/rename Disallow: /twiki/bin/resetpasswd Disallow: /twiki/bin/rest Disallow: /twiki/bin/save Disallow: /twiki/bin/search Disallow: /twiki/bin/setlib.cfg Disallow: /twiki/bin/statistics Disallow: /twiki/bin/twiki Disallow: /twiki/bin/upload Disallow: /twiki/bin/viewauth Disallow: /twiki/bin/viewfile # Fake path created using mod_redirect to identify use of /twiki/bin/view with a # query string - reject those. Disallow: /twiki/query/ # We only want Main to be searched so exclude other webs Disallow: /twiki/bin/view/TWiki/ Disallow: /twiki/bin/view/Sandbox/ Disallow: /twiki/bin/view/Trash/ # Disallow everything else User-agent: * Disallow: /