robots.txt

[aenor]

I couldnt find a bugtracker or anything so I am posting my feature requests in this forum.
It would be nice to see a bug/feature-tracker like trac, redmine or bugzilla. That does specially help the developers to keep an overview. If theres allready such a thing it could be promoted more on the website.

Now to the feature request:
Please add a robots.txt in the root directory with the following content:

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User-agent: *
Disallow: /
That prevents searchengines from indexing the login site.
On the one hand it is useless to have a login page indexed and on the other hand it could be possible to find opengoo installations through i.e. google and possibly even certain versions (or at least versions prior to a specific version if the login page changed (title or a string)) which can be used to exploit possible security holes.

[a2opinion]

good call.

It's an easy thing for us to add ourselves, but we shouldn't have to.  Should be super easy to implement also.

[ignacio]

It won't have any effect unless you install OpenGoo in the document root of your server, am I right?

[aenor]

It won't have any effect unless you install OpenGoo in the document root of your server, am I right?

That is right, it will only apply to the users, who use opengoo in the document root, i.e. in a subdomain. But it won't "harm" others. That is exactly the way roundcube and phpmyadmin handle it.

[a2opinion]

Just discovered today that putting this in your robots.txt will prevent google from spidering your calendar if you have the feed imported into your google calendar.

[internalkernel]

Yep... that's exactly how I came across this thread... after upgrading from 1.6.1 to 1.6.2 - the robots.txt file must have come to life. And google is complaining about not being able to crawl the contents of an exported ical.

My workaround was to add:

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User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /*.php?c=feed&a=ical_export$
to the top of my robots.txt

[a2opinion]

oh yeah, that's much better than just killing it off, which is what I was doing...