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0001406Site[All Projects] Suggestionpublic2013-07-16 19:382018-11-28 08:44
Torr Samaho 
Torr Samaho 
highmajoralways
closedfixed 
0001406: Allow robots to read the tracker
'https://zandronum.com/robots.txt [^]' says

User-agent: *
Disallow: /tracker/


which prevents search engines from indexing the tracker.
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Issue History
2013-07-16 19:38Torr SamahoNew Issue
2013-07-16 19:58infurnusNote Added: 0006671
2013-07-16 19:58infurnusNote Edited: 0006671bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=6671#r3714
2013-07-16 20:00Torr SamahoNote Added: 0006672
2013-07-16 20:00Torr SamahoStatusnew => resolved
2013-07-16 20:00Torr SamahoResolutionopen => fixed
2013-07-16 20:00Torr SamahoAssigned To => Torr Samaho
2013-07-16 20:11Blzut3Note Added: 0006673
2013-07-16 20:12Torr SamahoNote Added: 0006675
2013-07-16 20:56Blzut3Note Added: 0006677
2013-07-16 21:20Torr SamahoNote Added: 0006678
2013-07-16 21:25Blzut3Note Added: 0006679
2018-11-28 08:44Blzut3Statusresolved => closed

Notes
(0006671)
infurnus   
2013-07-16 19:58   
Fixed! I would mark this resolved if I knew how

(0006672)
Torr Samaho   
2013-07-16 20:00   
Thanks! I can mark it as resolved for you.
(0006673)
Blzut3   
2013-07-16 20:11   
Well, lets just hope this doesn't bring spam bots to the tracker.
(0006675)
Torr Samaho   
2013-07-16 20:12   
Oh, was that the reason to disallow robots?
(0006677)
Blzut3   
2013-07-16 20:56   
That was the idea. I don't know how spam bot prone Mantis is, so I stopped the tracker from being indexed as soon as we switched from the forum to the tracker. Most spam comes from a bot using Google and searching for keywords present on every install. For example to find all mantis trackers on the Internet just search for: "MantisBT Group"

If you feel that it's important that the tickets get indexed then I guess there are other ways we can deal with the spam if it starts appearing.
(0006678)
Torr Samaho   
2013-07-16 21:20   
I think it would be nice to have the tickets indexed. Do you think it would be easy to go back if we find out that too many spam bots are coming?
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Blzut3   
2013-07-16 21:25   
It's difficult to say for sure, but I believe that would be possible. It'll take awhile for things to be removed from the index though.