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Good afternoon,
I have installed a year ago the flexicontent witch changed all url.
Lately i ha ve changed and the hosting server.
Trying these days to redirect some pages, using the redirection tool of joomla, robots.txt shows up as 404.
I show in the root file of the installation that i haven't a robots.txt but a robots.txt.dist.
What should i do? Is it normal? should i redirect the robots.txt to the robots.txt.dist?
Should i rename the robots.txt.dist to robots.txt?
ThankU!



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The robots.txt.dist. file is the version of robots.txt that Joomla! ships as a default file. You can rename or copy it to robots.txt and make any changes that you need to.

Are there any concerns about safety?
Is there a piece of code that i should add in order to restrict some places of been indexd?

Unlike the .htaccess file, robots.txt can not prevent a bot from accessing your site. So the ones that respect it are nothing to worry about and the ones you want to block won't pay any attention. You can actually block bots using .htaccess Maker.

I generally use the default file.

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