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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thank you so much!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I will comply.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Bob Swanson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">UConn Libraries<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">860-486-5260 – Office<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">860-617-1188 - Mobile<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org <archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Blake Carver<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 21, 2019 11:54 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Archivesspace Users Group <archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Help with robots.txt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Look at that!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Farchivesspace%2Farchivesspace%2Fcommit%2F0bfb91e7f27a18b4cb6e0a27527be1041c877237%23diff-f266d24dcc6fcbe9020ee4f31cf538f7&data=02%7C01%7Cbob.swanson%40uconn.edu%7C60149aa8361344aef23008d6de049c5c%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C636940508729129268&sdata=MJ9vLNVGxdo0LQ53cO40qAmukhSclOrZv8yFwiO9WKk%3D&reserved=0">https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/commit/0bfb91e7f27a18b4cb6e0a27527be1041c877237#diff-f266d24dcc6fcbe9020ee4f31cf538f7</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Yep, sure looks like that'll work as well. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">So it seems like the easiest way to serve up a robots file is just throw it in your config directory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">
<a href="mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org">archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org</a> <<a href="mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org">archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org</a>>
on behalf of Andrew Morrison <<a href="mailto:andrew.morrison@bodleian.ox.ac.uk">andrew.morrison@bodleian.ox.ac.uk</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 21, 2019 11:37 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Archivesspace Users Group<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Help with robots.txt</span> <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you put a robots.txt file in the config folder of your ArchivesSpace system, it will be served by a request for /robots.txt, after the next restart. I cannot remember where I read that, and cannot find it now, but can confirm it works,
since I believe 2.6.0.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Andrew Morrison<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Software Engineer<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Bodleian Digital Library Systems and Services<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bodleian.ox.ac.uk%2Fbdlss&data=02%7C01%7Cbob.swanson%40uconn.edu%7C60149aa8361344aef23008d6de049c5c%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C636940508729129268&sdata=hHEwf14Gs%2Bm5sfD8Lp68S7wN0n9pL1NbK2nbkO90pWg%3D&reserved=0">https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/bdlss</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, 2019-05-21 at 13:59 +0000, Swanson, Bob wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal">Please forgive me if this is posted twice, I sent the following yesterday before I submitted the “acceptance Email” to the ArchivesSpace Users Group. I don’t see where it was posted on the board (am I doing this correctly?).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal">So far as I can tell, this is how I’m supposed to ask questions regarding ArchivesSpace.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal">Please forgive and correct me if I’m going about this incorrectly.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal">I am new to ArchivesSpace, Ruby, JBOD and web development, so I’m pretty dumb.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal">The PUI Pre-Launch checklist advises creating and updating <b>
robots.txt</b>,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal">So we would like to set up a <b>robots.txt</b> file to control what crawlers can access when they crawl our ArvhivesSpace site
<a href="https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchivessearch.lib.uconn.edu%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cbob.swanson%40uconn.edu%7C60149aa8361344aef23008d6de049c5c%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C636940508729139257&sdata=g1gJFYqoFtX5S5EImTzssbksDfi328kw%2B%2F1H6TigIXk%3D&reserved=0">
https://archivessearch.lib.uconn.edu/</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal">I understand that <b>robots.txt</b> is supposed to go in the web root directory of the website.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal">In a normal apache configuration that’s simple enough.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal">But,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal">We are serving ArchivesSpace via HTTPS.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsolistparagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in">a)<span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
</span>All Port 80 traffic is redirected to Port 443.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsolistparagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in">b)<span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
</span>443 traffic is proxied to 8081 (for the public interface) per the ArchivesSpace documentation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"> <b>RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Proto "https"</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b> ProxyPreserveHost On</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b> ProxyPass / <a href="http://localhost:8081/">
http://localhost:8081/</a> retry=1 acquire=3000 timeout=600 Keepalive=on</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:1.0in">
<b> ProxyPassReverse / <a href="http://localhost:8081/">http://localhost:8081/</a></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal">So, my web root directory (var/www/html) is empty (save some garbage left over from when I was testing).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal">I’ve read the documentation on <a href="https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.robotstxt.org&data=02%7C01%7Cbob.swanson%40uconn.edu%7C60149aa8361344aef23008d6de049c5c%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C636940508729139257&sdata=BxRVDxhr3LQAM%2FX2GD58d%2Bt%2BUoNsnoJPYfWRk6UtH9c%3D&reserved=0">
www.robotstxt.org</a> but I can’t find anything that pertains to my situation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal">I have to imagine that most ArchivesSpace sites are now https and use robots.txt, so this should be a somewhat a somewhat standard implementation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal">I don not find much information on the Users Group site pertaining to this,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal">I find reference to plans for this being implemented at the web server level back in 2016,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal">But nothing beyond that.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><a href="https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flyralists.lyrasis.org%2Fpipermail%2Farchivesspace_users_group%2F2016-August%2F003916.html&data=02%7C01%7Cbob.swanson%40uconn.edu%7C60149aa8361344aef23008d6de049c5c%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C636940508729149251&sdata=RaQCHvtRY6H7Ned5F0ULjrwYo1yG6E7lyi%2FvHgrGUSI%3D&reserved=0">http://lyralists.lyrasis.org/pipermail/archivesspace_users_group/2016-August/003916.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal">A search of the ArchivesSpace Technical Documentation for “robots” comes up empty as well.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal">Can you please direct me to any documentation that may exist on setting up a robots.txt file in a proxied HTTPS instance of ArchviceSpace?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal">Thank you, and please tolerate my naivety.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Bob Swanson</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">UConn Libraries</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">860-486-5260 – Office</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">860-617-1188 - Mobile</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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