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guessme
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393 Posts
Posted - 04 September 2003 :  04:00:20  Show Profile  Visit guessme's Homepage
Using IE Booster which uses NetMechanic: Works on other snitz forums but not yours. How have you disabled this.

We were unable to process your home page (http://forum.snitz.com/forum/topic.asp) because access is denied for robots. Please change your robots.txt file to allow access to NetMechanic.

RichardKinser
Snitz Forums Admin

USA
16655 Posts
Posted - 04 September 2003 :  04:10:26  Show Profile
robots.txt file in the root web directory:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /forum/
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guessme
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393 Posts
Posted - 04 September 2003 :  16:04:39  Show Profile  Visit guessme's Homepage
thanks, but what is the root web directory and where can i find it? Is it the www folder on the server?
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HuwR
Forum Admin

United Kingdom
20584 Posts
Posted - 04 September 2003 :  16:42:18  Show Profile  Visit HuwR's Homepage
quote:
Originally posted by guessme

thanks, but what is the root web directory and where can i find it? Is it the www folder on the server?

Why ?

for what reason do you want this information
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guessme
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393 Posts
Posted - 05 September 2003 :  01:30:12  Show Profile  Visit guessme's Homepage
So i can do what you have done. There must be a good reason for doing what you did. Why did you do it and what reason did you do it. I was told i needed this info to do what you did. Please read above.
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OneWayMule
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Austria
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Posted - 05 September 2003 :  03:39:05  Show Profile  Visit OneWayMule's Homepage  Send OneWayMule an ICQ Message
guessme, you can find some info about robots.txt files at http://www.robotstxt.org/
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guessme
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393 Posts
Posted - 05 September 2003 :  16:42:38  Show Profile  Visit guessme's Homepage
When trying to find the robots.txt i get a 404 error. Can you be more spefic as to where it is?
Edited by - guessme on 05 September 2003 17:08:50
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Nikkol
Forum Moderator

USA
6907 Posts
Posted - 05 September 2003 :  17:13:21  Show Profile
you have to create your own robots.txt file if you want to use it.
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guessme
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Posted - 05 September 2003 :  20:38:17  Show Profile  Visit guessme's Homepage
Thank You!
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guessme
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Posted - 05 September 2003 :  20:52:49  Show Profile  Visit guessme's Homepage
So that anyone who reads this knows, i put in in the www folder and it seems to work.
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HuwR
Forum Admin

United Kingdom
20584 Posts
Posted - 06 September 2003 :  03:52:47  Show Profile  Visit HuwR's Homepage
quote:
Originally posted by guessme

So that anyone who reads this knows, i put in in the www folder and it seems to work.

That would entirely depend on how your server/directories are configured. It should go in the web root as Richard suggested in his first post.
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