Robots.txt generation module for Silverstripe

This module provides simple robots.txt generation for Silverstripe, with various configuration options available.

When a site is not in live mode (such as on a testing domain) it will respectively block the entire domain, ensuring that (at least respectful) search engines will refrain from indexing your test site.

This doesn't support complex rules (such as multiple rules for different user agents), as it's designed to cater to the 99.9% of cases which won't require manual configuration.

Credits and Authors

• Damian Mooyman - https://github.com/tractorcow/silverstripe-robots

Requirements

• Silverstripe 4 or above

Installation Instructions

• Extract all files into the 'robots' folder under your Silverstripe root, or install using composer

composer require "tractorcow/silverstripe-robots": "^4"

• Make sure you are correctly setting your environment for it to work properly
• It's also advisable to either install the googlesitemaps module, or to create a physical sitemap.xml in your site root.

Configuration

You can add a page or pattern to be blocked by adding it to the disallowedUrls configuration

---
Name: myrobotsconfiguration
---
TractorCow\Robots\Robots:
  disallowed_urls:
    - 'mysecretpage.html'
    - '_private'
    - 'Documents-and-Settings/Ricky/My-Documents/faxes/sent-faxes'

Also by default, any page with 'ShowInSearch' set to false will also be excluded. This can be useful for hiding auxilary pages like "thanks for signing up", or error pages.

You can turn this off (if you really absolutely think you need to) using the below

---
Name: myrobotsconfiguration
---
TractorCow\Robots\Robots:
  disallow_unsearchable: false

By default the module will check for a sitemap file in /sitemap.xml, or will assume one is there if the googlesitemap module is installed. You can set a custom file location using the below configuration.

---
Name: myrobotsconfiguration
---
TractorCow\Robots\Robots:
  sitemap: '/sitemap_index.xml'

Need more help?

Message or email me at [email protected] or, well, read the code!

License

Copyright (c) 2013, Damian Mooyman All rights reserved.

All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

• Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
• Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
• The name of Damian Mooyman may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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