Hello, Excluding index.php using robots.txt should work if an article link on your page is http://mysite.tld/My_Page. The robots would then not crawl http://mysite.tld/index.php?title=My_Page&action=editedit, etc.

On 10/1/06, Sy Ali <sy1234(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 9/25/06, Roger Chrisman <roger(a)rogerchrisman.com> wrote: > > But in the interest of short URLs, I serve my MediaWiki directly > > from site / without any /wiki/ or /w/ directories. So above > > meathod would not work on my installation. > > > > Any ideas how I can exclude robots from crawling all my wiki's > > edit, history, talk, etc, pages *without* excluding its article > > pages? > > I do the same thing, and I never did figure out the rules to > disallow the other sub-pages. > > As I understand, there are "nofol" tags within the web pages > itself, but I'm not certain that's being honoured. > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

User-agent: * Disallow: index.php