# Sample robots.txt file (make sure the filename is ALL LOWERCASE on Linux/Unix systems) # This file should go in your web site's ROOT directory # The root directory is where your site's main /index.html file would be found # It is usually found in /yourhomedir/public_html/ or /yourhomedir/httpdocs # Where "yourhomedir" is your user account's name # # We invite you to also check out our popular contribution: Simple Template System (STS) # It lets you layout or change your OSC look-and-feel by modifying a single HTML file # http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,1524 or SimpleTemplateSystem.com # Enjoy! - Brian Gallagher @ DiamondSea.com # This says to apply these settings to ALL search engine spiders/crawlers User-agent: * # These settings will keep spiders from indexing your unwanted pages # This assumes that your OSC install is in your web site's ROOT directory # ie: http://www.yoursite.com/index.php <- Use if this brings up your OSC main page Disallow: /admin Disallow: /chat Disallow: /account.php Disallow: /advanced_search.php Disallow: /checkout_shipping.php Disallow: /create_account.php Disallow: /login.php Disallow: /password_forgotten.php Disallow: /popup_image.php Disallow: /shopping_cart.php Disallow: /ssl_check.php Disallow: /specials.php Disallow: /stylesheet.css Disallow: /tell_a_friend.php Disallow: /logoff.php Disallow: /layer_invites Disallow: /images Disallow: /himo Disallow: /javascript Disallow: /class Disallow: /download Disallow: /cgi-bin Disallow: /lang Disallow: /pub Disallow: /account_edit.php Disallow: /account_history.php Disallow: /account_history_info.php Disallow: /account_newsletters.php Disallow: /account_notifications.php Disallow: /account_password.php Disallow: /address_book.php Disallow: /address_book_process.php Disallow: /admin.php Disallow: /admin_actions.php Disallow: /admin_chat_bot.php Disallow: /admin_chat_flush.php Disallow: /admin_chat_refresh.php Disallow: /admin_chat_xmlhttp.php Disallow: /admin_common.php Disallow: /admin_connect.php Disallow: /admin_image.php Disallow: /admin_options.php Disallow: /admin_rooms.php Disallow: /admin_users.php Disallow: /admin_users_refresh.php Disallow: /admin_users_xmlhttp.php Disallow: /advanced_search_result.php Disallow: /autoinvite.php Disallow: /chat_color.php Disallow: /checkout_confirmation.php Disallow: /checkout_payment.php Disallow: /checkout_process.php Disallow: /checkout_shipping.php Disallow: /checkout_success.php Disallow: /choosedepartment.php Disallow: /class.browser_info.php Disallow: /client_visitors.php Disallow: /conditions.php Disallow: /config.php Disallow: /config.orig.php Disallow: /config.cslh.php Disallow: /cookie_usage.php Disallow: /create_account.php Disallow: /create_account_success.php Disallow: /csv.php Disallow: /data.php Disallow: /data_clean.php Disallow: /data_functions.php Disallow: /data_keywords.php Disallow: /data_messages.php Disallow: /data_paths.php Disallow: /data_referers.php Disallow: /data_transcripts.php Disallow: /data_users.php Disallow: /data_visits.php Disallow: /department_functions.php Disallow: /departments.php Disallow: /details.php Disallow: /download.php Disallow: /edit_layer.php Disallow: /edit_quick.php Disallow: /edit_smile.php Disallow: /external_bot.php Disallow: /external_chat_xmlhttp.php Disallow: /external_frameset.php Disallow: /functions.php Disallow: /gc.php Disallow: /gpl.php Disallow: /graph.php Disallow: /help.php Disallow: /htmltags.php Disallow: /image.php Disallow: /info_shopping_cart.php Disallow: /password_forgotten.php Disallow: /popup_image.php Disallow: /popup_search_help.php Disallow: /product_reviews_write.php Disallow: /redirect.php Disallow: /choosedepartment.php # These settings will keep spiders from indexing your unwanted pages # This assumes that your OSC install is in your web site's ROOT directory # ie: http://www.yoursite.com/catalog/index.php <- Use if this brings up your OSC main page # Feel free to add any other pages on your site that you don't want to be indexed by # the search engines. # PLEASE NOTE: Any pages that you list here should be secured by other means if you # don't want people to be able to view them, as some malicious users will look at a # robots.txt file to try to find "hidden" or "secret" areas of web sites to find # confidential information. # Just Uncomment a line or add new ones as you see fit. # Disallow: /private # Disallow: /hidden