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9/26/2011 4:08 PM
 
Doxey Kemp

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I have a portal for our corporate website, works great.  Recently I created a new parent level portal to display our business continuity information.  The corporate website should be indexed by search engines, but the business continuity site should not.

I tried placing appropriate robots.txt in portals\0\ and portals\1\ folders but it seems that the search engines only see the robots.txt in the httpdocs\ folder.  If true, then it seems impossible to have a two different robots.txt for two portals on the same installation.

Yes, I searched around a bit.  I found one vague answer on dnncreative that basically said it is possible, and I found another answer, a blog post, where the author said it is not possible.  I asked my host provider, who pointed me to the dnncreative thread, which I had already found, thanks.  I searched this site and failed to find the answer.

Does anyone know where I can find the difinitive answer on this?
 
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9/26/2011 7:42 PM
 
cathal connolly


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i dont believe this is possible (at least it wasnt last time I looked) - i recall seeing an option to have a handler that redirected google to a particular page based on the request but ive never had a chance to dive in and see if that worked.
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10/14/2011 10:12 AM
 
Ed DeGagne


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cathal is correct, you can only have a single robots.txt file and it has to be in the root of the site.
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2/2/2012 3:29 PM
 
Erik P. Ernst


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Related to this issue, does anyone know if there is any way to handle this?

I have a site with two portals, one portal is now in production while the other is still in test. I don't want the portal in test to be indexed, but I would really like the one in production to be included.
 
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2/2/2012 3:52 PM
 
cathal connolly


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Actually in response to the earlier question, there is a way to do portal specific sitemaps - you use the sitemap provider -this does require you to submit a URL to the relevant search engines (google/yahoo/bing) but this URL detects the request and provides a sitemap specific for that portal - see more about this at http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Resources/W... and how to configure it via http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Resources/V...

As to Erik's question, there is no way with the default sitemap provider to disable at a portal level - though you can of course make your own and apply your own business logic - whilst this blog is more about a module specific sitemap than a portal specific one it offers some good background - http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Resources/B... .

Please note, the easiest current solution for your issue is to simply remove the "all users" view permissions from your page - the sitemap will still generate but have no entries.

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