RE: howto stop crawler and bots according to their user agent string

2008-07-15 Thread Peter Crowther
From: Mathias Walter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] How can I prevent crawler and bots according to their user agent? I've put a robots.txt in webapps/ROOT, but this file is not read again. So, to check, the crawlers are not reading your robots.txt and are crawling your site anyway? I'd like

RE: howto stop crawler and bots according to their user agent string

2008-07-15 Thread Mathias Walter
Hi, I've put a robots.txt in webapps/ROOT, but this file is not read again. So, to check, the crawlers are not reading your robots.txt and are crawling your site anyway? I don't know it exactly. The problem is that the sites are linked from anywhere. I'm not sure, if a crawler that

Re: howto stop crawler and bots according to their user agent string

2008-07-15 Thread Markus Fischer
Hello Mathias, Mathias Walter wrote: I don't know it exactly. The problem is that the sites are linked from anywhere. I'm not sure, if a crawler that follows the link http://mydomain:port/servlet/page.jsp, looks for the robots.txt in the ROOT webapp. Just last week we've installed a