is there a difference between:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /searchprod/
and
User-agent: *
Disallow: /searchprod
...basically removing the last forward slash?
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Quick Little Robots.txt Question
Started by
thwart
, Oct 15 2007 10:27 AM
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Posted 15 October 2007 - 10:31 AM
Yes.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /searchprod/
will disallow everything in the searchprod directory.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /searchprod
will disallow everything in the searchprod directory, and everything in the root directory that begins with searchprod, e.g. /searchproducts.html
This is is because disallow lines in robots.txt are a pattern match to the start of a URL.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /searchprod/
will disallow everything in the searchprod directory.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /searchprod
will disallow everything in the searchprod directory, and everything in the root directory that begins with searchprod, e.g. /searchproducts.html
This is is because disallow lines in robots.txt are a pattern match to the start of a URL.
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Posted 15 October 2007 - 10:38 AM
QUOTE(Alan Perkins @ Oct 15 2007, 11:31 AM) 
Yes.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /searchprod/
will disallow everything in the searchprod directory.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /searchprod
will disallow everything in the searchprod directory, and everything in the root directory that begins with searchprod, e.g. /searchproducts.html
This is is because disallow lines in robots.txt are a pattern match to the start of a URL.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /searchprod/
will disallow everything in the searchprod directory.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /searchprod
will disallow everything in the searchprod directory, and everything in the root directory that begins with searchprod, e.g. /searchproducts.html
This is is because disallow lines in robots.txt are a pattern match to the start of a URL.
Ah, so if I don't have any files that have searchprod in them, THEN the two different syntaxes would be pretty much doing the same thing. Interesting.
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Posted 15 October 2007 - 10:44 AM
QUOTE(thwart)
if I don't have any files that have searchprod in them, THEN the two different syntaxes would be pretty much doing the same thing.
Correct.
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