# 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 # # We invite you to also check out our popular contribution: Simple Template System (STS) # It lets you layout or change your OSC look-and-feel by modifying a single HTML file # http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,1524 or SimpleTemplateSystem.com # Enjoy! - Brian Gallagher @ DiamondSea.com # This says to apply these settings to ALL search engine spiders/crawlers User-agent: * # 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/warehouse/index.php <- Use if this brings up your OSC main page Disallow: /warehouse/admin Disallow: /warehouse/account.php Disallow: /warehouse/advanced_search.php Disallow: /warehouse/checkout_shipping.php Disallow: /warehouse/cookie_usage.php Disallow: /warehouse/create_account.php Disallow: /warehouse/login.php Disallow: /warehouse/logoff.php Disallow: /warehouse/password_forgotten.php Disallow: /warehouse/shopping_cart.php Disallow: /warehouse/download Disallow: /warehouse/pub Disallow: /warehouse/tmp Disallow: /warehouse/awstats_misc_tracker_js.php Disallow: /support/admin Disallow: /support/viewtopic.php Disallow: /support/viewforum.php Disallow: /support/index.php? Disallow: /support/posting.php Disallow: /support/groupcp.php Disallow: /support/search.php Disallow: /support/login.php Disallow: /support/privmsg.php Disallow: /support/profile.php Disallow: /support/memberlist.php Disallow: /support/faq.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 Disallow: /.fp Disallow: /_private Disallow: /_vti_bin Disallow: /_vti_cnf Disallow: /_vti_log Disallow: /_vti_pvt Disallow: /_vti_txt Disallow: /awstats Disallow: /catalog Disallow: /cgi-bin Disallow: /cp Disallow: /data Disallow: /downloads Disallow: /menu_code Disallow: /modlogan Disallow: /phpbb2 Disallow: /php-sdk Disallow: /webalizer Disallow: /widgets Disallow: /page_error-400.html Disallow: /page_error-401.html Disallow: /page_error-403.html Disallow: /page_error-404.html Disallow: /page_error-405.html Disallow: /page_error-500.html Disallow: /page_error-501.html User-agent: YodaoBot-Image Disallow: /images Disallow: /warehouse/images_big Disallow: /warehouse/popup_image.php Disallow: /warehouse/admin Disallow: /support Disallow: /support/admin