Making Bots Not Access My Website

[chugger93]

I'm using joomla internally sorta speak but its still out on the internet. I dont want any bots to access my site and index it. What files do I edit to put the code in? I'm assuming I'm looking for like an index.html file.

Thanks in advance!

[hdouglas]

The file you want to edit is robots.txt (should be in the root folder where you normally have index.php or index.html

Inside this (which is a normal text file) put the lines:

Code: Select all

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

[chugger93]

and that will dissallow bots to index the entire site right? Like EVERYTHING... right?

Thanks!

[twcmex]

...well, more or less....at least the 'good' bots. The 'bad' bots do whatever they want