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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:
  1. 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

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