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WHS and Robot.txt for google indexing.

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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
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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
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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.
- Proposed as answer by Ken WarrenModerator Tuesday, November 24, 2009 2:05 PM
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 11:21 AMModerator -
Google is your friend in this case.
I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)- Proposed as answer by Ken WarrenModerator Tuesday, November 24, 2009 2:06 PM
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 2:05 PMModerator -
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