ArchivesSpace robots.txt

The easiest way to add a robots.txt to your site is simply create one in your /config/ directly. This file will be served as a standard robots.txt file when you start your site.

If you’re not able to do that, you can use a seperate file and your proxy.

For Apache the config would look like this:

<Location "/robots.txt">
 SetHandler None
 Require all granted
</Location>
Alias /robots.txt /var/www/robots.txt

nginx, more like this:

  location /robots.txt {
    alias /var/www/robots.txt;
  }

You may also add robots meta-tags to your layout_head.html.erb to be included in the header area of your site.

example:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">

A sensible starting point for a robots.txt file looks something like this:

Disallow: /search*
Disallow: /inventory/*
Disallow: /collection_organization/*
Disallow: /repositories/*/top_containers/*
Disallow: /check_session*
Disallow: /repositories/*/resources/*/tree/*