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Rocket Chat ignores robots.txt and blocks google search bots
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Description
Description:
In "General -> Robots.txt File Contents", I put:
User-agent: *
Allow: /
In "Meta -> Custom Meta Tags", I put:
<meta name="description" content="blah blah blah" />
<meta name="keywords" content="blah1,blah2" />
However, I have waited more than 3 days. My website appears by google search, but its desctiption says "No information is available for this page.". So I went to Google search console and tested URL, it says robots.txt is blocking their bots so that they can't create website description. But above I have allowed all bots into my website.
Steps to reproduce:
- Provided above in Description section.
Expected behavior:
Actual behavior:
Google search should say description of my website.
Server Setup Information:
- Version of Rocket.Chat Server: 1.0.2
- Operating System: ubuntu 18.04
- Deployment Method:
- Number of Running Instances:
- DB Replicaset Oplog:
- NodeJS Version:
- MongoDB Version:
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Research direction
Start with the General → Robots.txt File Contents and Meta → Custom Meta Tags settings, then verify the robots.txt response with Google Search Console or an equivalent crawler. Done means an Allow: / configuration is honored and the generated page can be crawled and described.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- web-dev
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100