Most web applications shouldn't be indexed by Google. This app just provides a view that serves a "deny all" robots.txt.
In some cases, you do want your app to be indexed - but only in your production environment (not any staging environments). For this case, you can set ROBOTS_ALLOW_HOST. If the incoming hostname matches this setting, an "allow all" robots.txt will be served. Otherwise, the "deny all" will be served.
Tested against Django 2.2, 3.2 and 4.0 on Python 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9 and 3.10
Install from PIP
pip install django-simple-robots
In your root urlconf, add an entry as follows:
from django.conf.urls import url
from simple_robots.views import serve_robots
urlpatterns = [
path("robots.txt", serve_robots),
# ..... other stuff
]
Then, add simple_robots to INSTALLED_APPS in your settings.py
Optionally, set ROBOTS_ALLOW_HOST settings variable.
ROBOTS_ALLOW_HOST = "myproductionurl.com"
You can use Django / Wagtail's Multisite functionality, you just need to add the allowed domains separated by spaces
ROBOTS_ALLOW_HOST = "myproductionurl.com myotherproductionurl.com"
That's it!
The allow and disallow template are stored at robots.txt and robots-disallow.txt respectively. You can override these in your projects templates directory to customize the responses.
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