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Re: stopping webcrawlers using robots.txt

From: Thomas Beale <thomas_at_deepthought.com.au>
Date: 2006-07-13 01:00:51 CEST

Sorry - this fix doesn't work - it does what it is supposed to do with
respect to serving robots.txt files, but now subversion clients can't do
updates, although they can do some other operations like commit and log.....

apologies for the previous post...

- thomas beale

Thomas Beale wrote:
>
> Our system administrator messed around with this, and produced the
> following solution, which works. The key was to change Location
> directives to Directory directives, i.e. to match directory patterns not
> URL patterns.
>
> <VirtualHost 1.2.3.4>
> ServerAdmin webmaster@xxxx.org
>
> ServerName svn.xxxx.org
>
> DocumentRoot /usr/local/var/svn
>
> RewriteEngine On
> RewriteRule .*robots\.txt$ /generic-root/robots.txt [PT]
>
> Alias /generic-root /usr/local/var/generic-root
>
> <Directory /usr/local/var/generic-root>
> SetHandler default-handler
> allow from all
> </Directory>
>
> <Directory /usr/local/var/svn>
> DAV svn
> SVNParentPath /usr/local/var/svn
>
> # authorisation
> AuthzSVNAccessFile /etc/subversion/access-control
>
> # authentication
> AuthType Basic
> AuthName "development Subversion Repository"
> AuthUserFile /etc/subversion/authentication
>
> # anonymous access rules
> Satisfy Any
> Require valid-user
> </Directory>
> </VirtualHost>
>
>
>
> Thomas Beale wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have looked around but not found the answer to the question: how to
>> make /robots.txt visible in an apache virtual host config for a
>> subversion server. How would I tell Apache to allow requests to read
>> /robots.txt given the following configuration? (Or - how can I just
>> block robots going into the SVN repositories)?
>>
>> <VirtualHost 1.2.3.4>
>> ServerAdmin webmaster@xxxx.org
>>
>> ServerName svn.xxxx.org
>>
>> <Location />
>> DAV svn
>> SVNParentPath /usr/local/var/svn
>>
>> # authorisation
>> AuthzSVNAccessFile /etc/subversion/access-control
>>
>> # authentication
>> AuthType Basic
>> AuthName "development Subversion Repository"
>> AuthUserFile /etc/subversion/authentication
>>
>> # anonymous access rules
>> Satisfy Any
>> Require valid-user
>> </Location>
>> </VirtualHost>
>>
>>
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> - thomas beale

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