# Sample robots.txt file (make sure the filename is ALL LOWERCASE on Linux/Unix systems) # This file should go in your web site's ROOT directory # The root directory is where your site's main /index.html file would be found # It is usually found in /yourhomedir/public_html/ or /yourhomedir/httpdocs # Where "yourhomedir" is your user account's name # # This says to apply these settings to ALL search engine spiders/crawlers User-agent: * Disallow: /robots.txt Disallow: /admin/ Disallow: /images/ Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Disallow: /cp/ Disallow: /_private/ Disallow: /_vti_bin/ Disallow: /_vti_cnf/ Disallow: /_vti_log/ Disallow: /_vti_pvt/ Disallow: /_vti_txt/ # These settings will keep spiders from indexing your unwanted pages # This assumes that your OSC install is in your web site's ROOT directory # ie: http://www.yoursite.com/catalog/index.php <- Use if this brings up your OSC main page Disallow: /catalog/admin Disallow: /catalog/account.php Disallow: /catalog/advanced_search.php Disallow: /catalog/checkout_shipping.php Disallow: /catalog/create_account.php Disallow: /catalog/login.php Disallow: /catalog/login.php Disallow: /catalog/password_forgotten.php Disallow: /catalog/popup_image.php Disallow: /catalog/shopping_cart.php # Feel free to add any other pages on your site that you don't want to be indexed by # the search engines. # PLEASE NOTE: Any pages that you list here should be secured by other means if you # don't want people to be able to view them, as some malicious users will look at a # robots.txt file to try to find "hidden" or "secret" areas of web sites to find # confidential information. # Just Uncomment a line or add new ones as you see fit. # Disallow: /private # Disallow: /hidden