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  • Question

  • My girlfriend has made a website which we now host on our WHS. This works fine offcourse.
    However, when we tried to get the site indexed through google we discovered a problem.

    Apparently we need to edit the "robot.txt" file if we want to get the site properly indexed on Google.
    If we enter our url http://<my_domain>.homeserver.com/robot.txt we get the following:

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /

    Now we know what it should read but we do not know where to find the robot.txt file on the server itself.
    I have tried to search for the file on the WHS itself through a remote connection but even then I cannot find it on the server. Even if I search with hidden files on.

    My question is where would we find this robot.txt file on the home server?

    I hope anyone can shed some light on this small problem.

    Sincerily,

    John.
    Tuesday, November 24, 2009 8:32 AM

Answers

  • Well in the end we did find it through some help from another forum.

    Just so anyone might need this answer in the future:

    The robot.txt we needed was in Inetpub -> wwwroot directory.
    We changed that and now it seems to work.

    Thanks for the effort though.
    • Marked as answer by shoney71 Wednesday, November 25, 2009 8:41 AM
    Wednesday, November 25, 2009 8:41 AM

All replies

  • You should create the robot.txt file yourself and the place it in the root of your website. Seochat has an online robots.txt generator for this purpose.
    Tuesday, November 24, 2009 11:21 AM
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  • Google is your friend in this case.
    I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)
    Tuesday, November 24, 2009 2:05 PM
    Moderator
  • Well in the end we did find it through some help from another forum.

    Just so anyone might need this answer in the future:

    The robot.txt we needed was in Inetpub -> wwwroot directory.
    We changed that and now it seems to work.

    Thanks for the effort though.
    • Marked as answer by shoney71 Wednesday, November 25, 2009 8:41 AM
    Wednesday, November 25, 2009 8:41 AM