On Aug 7, 2007, at 2:36 PM, Lonnie Olson wrote:
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 10:53 -0600, Richard K Miller wrote:
Our web server has a couple dozen virtualhosts. A few have their own
robots.txt files, but for all the others I'd like to implement a
default robots.txt. Is there a way to do this in Apache instead of
copying or linking a file in every directory?
I tried putting this near the top of my httpd.conf but it didn't
work:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule /robots.txt /www/public/robots.txt [L]
You are very close. mod_rewrite[1] doesn't map URLs to the file
system,
it just rewrites the URL to another URL. mod_alias[2] is the what can
do fun things with mapping URLs to the file system.
Thanks for pointing this out -- I didn't know.
###mod_rewrite
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
# Don't really need to verify robots.txt is a directory
RewriteRule /robots.txt http://masterhost.domain.com/robots.txt [L]
If I use "http://"; in the substitution string, it issues an HTTP
redirect, which I don't want. (I want each robots.txt to be served
from its own domain.)
###Or even easier with mod_alias
Alias /robots.txt /www/public/robots.txt
The Alias command works, with one exception: The file at /www/public/
robots.txt is always served, even if a VirtualHost has its own
robots.txt file. Is there a way to do the equivalent of RewriteCond %
{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f with an Alias command?
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