Our.Umbraco.Blend.RobotsTxt 13.0.0

Blend RobotsTxt

This is a lightweight package that enables /robots.txt root of the umbraco website. This package is configured using appSettings.

Installation in Umbraco CMS

Command Line

donet add package Our.Umbraco.Blend.RobotsTxt

Or Nuget

Install-Package Our.Umbraco.Blend.RobotsTxt

Setup

In the Startup.cs there is a configuration you need to add for /robots.txt path to render.

In the app.UseUmbraco() Under .WithEndpoints(u => add:

u.EndpointRouteBuilder.MapControllers();

This will use the route /robots.txt declared in the controller.

Default

If there are not any configurations in the appSettings.json file and no environment is found the default robots.txt will be:

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /umbraco

If an environment is found and the name is Production the above will be rendered. For all other environments will be:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

The /umbraco is global path that is set in appSettings. If this is set to a different path this path will update.

Configuration

In the root of your appSettings.json you can configure custom settings. You can also use appSettings.[Environment].json to have specific settings for every environment.

"Robots": [
    {
        "UserAgent": "*",
        "Allow": [ "/" ],
        "Disallow": [ "/umbraco" ],
        "Sitemap: "/sitemap.xml"
    }
]

Robots is an array of objects to be configured as needed to your use case.

UserAgent is an optional string. If left blank will use *.

Allow is an optional string array. Array of paths to allow.

Disallow is an optional string array. Array of paths not to allow.

Sitemap is an optional string. If left blank will not include.

If Allow and Disallow are both empty, will set to Allow: /