# The FULL URL to the DSpace sitemaps # The https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui will be auto-filled with the value in dspace.cfg # XML sitemap is listed first as it is preferred by most search engines Sitemap: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/sitemap Sitemap: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/htmlmap ########################## # Default Access Group # (NOTE: blank lines are not allowable in a group record) ########################## User-agent: * # Disable access to Discovery search and filters Disallow: /discover Disallow: /search-filter # # Optionally uncomment the following line ONLY if sitemaps are working # and you have verified that your site is being indexed correctly. # Disallow: /browse # # If you have configured DSpace (Solr-based) Statistics to be publicly # accessible, then you may not want this content to be indexed # Disallow: /statistics # # You also may wish to disallow access to the following paths, in order # to stop web spiders from accessing user-based content # Disallow: /contact # Disallow: /feedback # Disallow: /forgot # Disallow: /login # Disallow: /register ############################## # Section for misbehaving bots # The following directives to block specific robots were borrowed from Wikipedia's robots.txt ############################## # advertising-related bots: User-agent: Mediapartners-Google* Disallow: / # Crawlers that are kind enough to obey, but which we'd rather not have # unless they're feeding search engines. User-agent: UbiCrawler Disallow: / User-agent: DOC Disallow: / User-agent: Zao Disallow: / # Some bots are known to be trouble, particularly those designed to copy # entire sites. Please obey robots.txt. User-agent: sitecheck.internetseer.com Disallow: / User-agent: Zealbot Disallow: / User-agent: MSIECrawler Disallow: / User-agent: SiteSnagger Disallow: / User-agent: WebStripper Disallow: / User-agent: WebCopier Disallow: / User-agent: Fetch Disallow: / User-agent: Offline Explorer Disallow: / User-agent: Teleport Disallow: / User-agent: TeleportPro Disallow: / User-agent: WebZIP Disallow: / User-agent: linko Disallow: / User-agent: HTTrack Disallow: / User-agent: Microsoft.URL.Control Disallow: / User-agent: Xenu Disallow: / User-agent: larbin Disallow: / User-agent: libwww Disallow: / User-agent: ZyBORG Disallow: / User-agent: Download Ninja Disallow: / # Misbehaving: requests much too fast: User-agent: fast Disallow: / # # If your DSpace is going down because of someone using recursive wget, # you can activate the following rule. # # If your own faculty is bringing down your dspace with recursive wget, # you can advise them to use the --wait option to set the delay between hits. # #User-agent: wget #Disallow: / # # The 'grub' distributed client has been *very* poorly behaved. # User-agent: grub-client Disallow: / # # Doesn't follow robots.txt anyway, but... # User-agent: k2spider Disallow: / # # Hits many times per second, not acceptable # http://www.nameprotect.com/botinfo.html User-agent: NPBot Disallow: / # A capture bot, downloads gazillions of pages with no public benefit # http://www.webreaper.net/ User-agent: WebReaper Disallow: / User-agent: SemrushBot Disallow: / User-agent: Bingbot Disallow: / User-agent: AhrefsBot Disallow: / User-agent: PetalBot Disallow: / User-agent: Baiduspider Disallow: / User-agent: Baiduspider-video Disallow: / User-agent: Baiduspider-image Disallow: /