Re: howto stop crawler and bots according to their user agent string

2008-07-15 Thread Markus Fischer
Hello Mathias, Mathias Walter wrote: I don't know it exactly. The problem is that the sites are linked from anywhere. I'm not sure, if a crawler that follows the link http://mydomain:port/servlet/page.jsp, looks for the robots.txt in the ROOT webapp. Just last week we've installed a robots.txt

RE: howto stop crawler and bots according to their user agent string

2008-07-15 Thread Mathias Walter
Hi, > > I've put a robots.txt in webapps/ROOT, but this file is not > > read again. > > So, to check, the crawlers are not reading your robots.txt > and are crawling your site anyway? I don't know it exactly. The problem is that the sites are linked from anywhere. I'm not sure, if a crawler tha

RE: howto stop crawler and bots according to their user agent string

2008-07-15 Thread Peter Crowther
> From: Mathias Walter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > How can I prevent crawler and bots according to their user agent? > > I've put a robots.txt in webapps/ROOT, but this file is not > read again. So, to check, the crawlers are not reading your robots.txt and are crawling your site anyway? > I'd l

howto stop crawler and bots according to their user agent string

2008-07-15 Thread Mathias Walter
Hi, I'm using Tomcat without the Apache Web Server. Now, some bots are crawling my database driven website. How can I prevent crawler and bots according to their user agent? I've put a robots.txt in webapps/ROOT, but this file is not read again. I'd like to stop crawlers by their useragent strin