Haha true about rotting RAM, I'll look into that. I am not using wikimedia
style URL's, sadly :( it just didn't happen when the site was first set up
and I can't move it now, for various reasons. All of my files are in the
web-root /. However, through an apache alias, my url is mywiki.com/Pagename.

How would robots.txt look for that? Would I simply drop the preceeding
/wiki, like this?

User-agent: *
Disallow: /Special:Search
Disallow: /Special:Random

Thanks a ton!

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:47 AM, Benjamin Lees <[email protected]> wrote:

> Assuming you have Wikimedia-style URLs:
> User-agent: *
> Disallow: /w/
> Disallow: /wiki/Special:Search
> Disallow: /wiki/Special:Random
>
> Your server will be able to handle a lot more if you set up as much caching
> as you can <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Cache>.  No sense letting
> all that spare RAM rot. :)
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Philip Beach <[email protected]
> >wrote:
>
> > I already have checked the access logs. It appears that Google and Yahoo
> > are
> > indeed generating a lot of traffic. Good idea Rob, I've been working on
> > this
> > for a while.
> >
> > Just out of curiosity, what should my robots.txt look like for Mediawiki.
> > Does anything need to be disallowed?
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Platonides <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > You should check the access logs for which is causing the error.
> > >
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