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Generate a robots.txt (#1068)
dduugg Jul 10, 2026
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Point 404 disallow at /404.html for #862
dduugg Jul 10, 2026
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3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions site/config/_default/hugo.toml
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# and https://www.shift2bikes.org/categories/ for all categories.
# taxonomies are autogenerated based on 'tags:' and 'categories:' specified on individual pages.
disableKinds = ["taxonomy", "term"]
# generate /robots.txt from site/layouts/robots.txt
# ( without this, hugo skips the file entirely. )
enableRobotsTXT = true

# -----------------------------
# Main menu used by the site's nav bar
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25 changes: 25 additions & 0 deletions site/layouts/robots.txt
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# https://www.shift2bikes.org/robots.txt
# re: #1068
#
# hugo only generates this file when `enableRobotsTXT`
# is set in site/config/_default/hugo.toml.

User-agent: *

# emailed event-management links; unlisted, but
# they should never be indexed if one leaks.
# ( netlify serves /addevent/* as a 200. )
Disallow: /addevent/edit-

# proxied straight through to our api server;
# crawling these is load with no indexable value.
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /socialapi/

# the 404 page is a real page, and hugo
# would otherwise offer it up for indexing.
Disallow: /404.html

# note: the entries in this sitemap are relative
# until baseURL is set per-context. see #1068.
Sitemap: https://www.shift2bikes.org/sitemap.xml