0001406: Allow robots to read the tracker - MantisBT

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0001406

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2013-07-16 19:38

2018-11-28 08:44

Reporter

Torr Samaho

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Torr Samaho

Priority

high

Severity

major

Reproducibility

always

Status

closed

Resolution

fixed

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Summary

0001406: Allow robots to read the tracker

Description

'https://zandronum.com/robots.txt [^]' says

User-agent: *
Disallow: /tracker/

which prevents search engines from indexing the tracker.

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

(0006672) Torr Samaho (administrator) 2013-07-16 20:00	Thanks! I can mark it as resolved for you.

(0006673) Blzut3 (administrator) 2013-07-16 20:11	Well, lets just hope this doesn't bring spam bots to the tracker.

(0006675) Torr Samaho (administrator) 2013-07-16 20:12	Oh, was that the reason to disallow robots?

(0006677) Blzut3 (administrator) 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 (administrator) 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?

(0006679) Blzut3 (administrator) 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.

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Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2013-07-16 19:38	Torr Samaho	New Issue
2013-07-16 19:58	infurnus	Note Added: 0006671
2013-07-16 19:58	infurnus	Note Edited: 0006671	View Revisions
2013-07-16 20:00	Torr Samaho	Note Added: 0006672
2013-07-16 20:00	Torr Samaho	Status	new => resolved
2013-07-16 20:00	Torr Samaho	Resolution	open => fixed
2013-07-16 20:00	Torr Samaho	Assigned To	=> Torr Samaho
2013-07-16 20:11	Blzut3	Note Added: 0006673
2013-07-16 20:12	Torr Samaho	Note Added: 0006675
2013-07-16 20:56	Blzut3	Note Added: 0006677
2013-07-16 21:20	Torr Samaho	Note Added: 0006678
2013-07-16 21:25	Blzut3	Note Added: 0006679
2018-11-28 08:44	Blzut3	Status	resolved => closed

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