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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Small correction: adding robots.txt to the config folder has worked since 2.2.2, not 2.6.0.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">I think documentation of this feature was lost because it was added around the same time that the tech-docs repository was being created.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Andrew.<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org <archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org> on behalf of Swanson, Bob
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<b>Sent:</b> 21 May 2019 17:08:33<br>
<b>To:</b> Archivesspace Users Group<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Help with robots.txt</font>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">Thank you so much!</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">I will comply.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">Bob Swanson</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">UConn Libraries</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">860-486-5260 – Office</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">860-617-1188 - Mobile</span></p>
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<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</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">Look at that!</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">Yep, sure looks like that'll work as well. </span></p>
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<p class="x_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.</span></p>
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<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> </p>
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<p class="x_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.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Regards,</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Andrew Morrison</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Bodleian Digital Library Systems and Services</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">On Tue, 2019-05-21 at 13:59 +0000, Swanson, Bob wrote:</p>
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<p class="x_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?).</p>
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<p class="x_xmsonormal">So far as I can tell, this is how I’m supposed to ask questions regarding ArchivesSpace.</p>
<p class="x_xmsonormal">Please forgive and correct me if I’m going about this incorrectly.</p>
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<p class="x_xmsonormal">I am new to ArchivesSpace, Ruby, JBOD and web development, so I’m pretty dumb.</p>
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<p class="x_xmsonormal">The PUI Pre-Launch checklist advises creating and updating
<b>robots.txt</b>,</p>
<p class="x_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>.</p>
<p class="x_xmsonormal">I understand that <b>robots.txt</b> is supposed to go in the web root directory of the website.</p>
<p class="x_xmsonormal">In a normal apache configuration that’s simple enough.</p>
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<p class="x_xmsonormal">But,</p>
<p class="x_xmsonormal">We are serving ArchivesSpace via HTTPS.</p>
<p class="x_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.</p>
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</span>443 traffic is proxied to 8081 (for the public interface) per the ArchivesSpace documentation.</p>
<p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"> <b>RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Proto "https"</b></p>
<p class="x_xmsonormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b> ProxyPreserveHost On</b></p>
<p class="x_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></p>
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<b> ProxyPassReverse / <a href="http://localhost:8081/">http://localhost:8081/</a></b></p>
<p class="x_xmsonormal">So, my web root directory (var/www/html) is empty (save some garbage left over from when I was testing).</p>
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<p class="x_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">
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<p class="x_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.</p>
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<p class="x_xmsonormal">I don not find much information on the Users Group site pertaining to this,</p>
<p class="x_xmsonormal">I find reference to plans for this being implemented at the web server level back in 2016,</p>
<p class="x_xmsonormal">But nothing beyond that.</p>
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<p class="x_xmsonormal">A search of the ArchivesSpace Technical Documentation for “robots” comes up empty as well.</p>
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<p class="x_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?</p>
<p class="x_xmsonormal">Thank you, and please tolerate my naivety.</p>
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<p class="x_xmsonormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Bob Swanson</span></p>
<p class="x_xmsonormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">UConn Libraries</span></p>
<p class="x_xmsonormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">860-486-5260 – Office</span></p>
<p class="x_xmsonormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">860-617-1188 - Mobile</span></p>
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