From 50e81aa8b61ac614d3db62d9259805e187495d8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: lapineige <lapineige@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 17:45:43 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add robots.txt information

---
 README.md | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e3de766a..8f4c02c3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -37,6 +37,15 @@ Registrations are open by default.
 To change that setting, edit `/var/www/pixelfed/.env` and set `OPEN_REGISTRATION=false` instead of `true`.
 Then run `php7.3 artisan config:cache` to reload the settings.
 
+### Disable search engine indexing
+
+If you don't want your Pixelfed instance to be indexed in search engine (and so on), edit `/var/www/pixelfed/public/robots.txt` like this:
+```
+User-agent: *
+Disallow: /
+```
+Note: search engines will see that files and may or may not respect its content.
+
 ### Pixelfed php commands and php version
 
 Pixelfed might require some command line instructions if you want to make manual changes to your configuration.