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    • LadyApollo
      LadyApollo last edited by

      We have a development site that we want google and other bots to stay out of but we want roger to have access.

      Currently our robots.txt looks like this:

      User-agent: *
      Disallow: /cgi-bin/
      Disallow: /development/

      What would i need to addd or change to let him through?

      Thank you.

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      • ClickConsult
        ClickConsult last edited by

        <code>This should work fine:</code>
        

        <code>User-agent: *
        Disallow: /cgi-bin/
        Disallow: /development/</code>

        <code>User-agent: rogerbot 
        Allow: /development/</code>
        ```
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        • LadyApollo
          LadyApollo @ClickConsult last edited by

          Thank you very much.

          Its looks so simple but when you've not done this before it can be scary.

          I also didn't want to get it wrong and miss roger on his crawl tomorrow!

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