robot.txt

Well i want to do some testing in my forum so i made a clone of it in another domain i want to stop search engines spidering it and index. How to do it with a robot txt file ?

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User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Thanks raider, I've been looking for that everywhere. I am so glad that someone was finally capable of answering this question

Thanks for the answer. Didn't know it was that easy. How you would do it you want to stop a particular search engine ? I'm sure is something pretty easy though I have no idea about it.

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Can I use this robot.txt file in custom script too?
I see this file in joomla dir too but I don't know how I can use this in general script.

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What do you mean by a custom script file ? If you are going to build custom script and you want to stop search engines spidering pages you can use a robot.txt file. its same as we use in normal websites. Heres general commands of robot.txt file

http://www.hasitha.info/how-to-use-...gines-spidering

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usually i place a clone of a site in a subfolder and use robots.txt to avoid spidering these and with any custom scripts and general CMS like joomla and pligg u can have robots.txt of own.